Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.Myer, Isaac
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Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.
Myer, Isaac
Egypt -- Religion; Scarabaeus; Symbolism
Khaibit. The, was the Shade or Shadow of the dead, 116. Parallels the
_Tzelem_ of the Hebrew Qabbalah.
Khat, was the Body, 114, 148.
Khem, 77.
_Kheper_ means, to become, to raise up, 88, 89, 95, 104, 111, 112.
Kheper as the emanator or creator, 101 _et seq._, 107 _et seq._
Khepera (Khepra). 104 _et seq._ See, Khepra.
Khephren. Statue of, in diorite, 41, 42. See, Khaf-Ra.
Khepra, 99, 100, 111, 112.
Khepra. The Scarabæus deity, 86.
Khepra, also called Khepera, a form of the maker of the Universe which
had the scarab as an emblem, 14, 99 _et seq._
was also called, Tum-Khepra also Osiris-Khepra, 88.
was the symbol of the Heart, 92, 93.
was the transformer, 78.
in the Book of the Dead, 78 _et seq._, 85.
as Harmakhis, 85, 86.
in the bosom of the gods, 87.
against the rebels, 88.
as the Enlightener, 78, 79.
is Eternity, 86.
is the producer of the transformations, 87, 88, 89.
Khepra overthrows Apap, the evil-serpent, 85, 86.
Khepri. See, Khepra.
Khmunu, 108.
Khopiru, 84.
Khu. The, 82, 98.
the Intellectual part of man's spirit, 115, 116.
in case of adverse judgment on the Ba, the Khu fled back to its
immortal source, 120.
Khu and Ka. Union of the, 120, 121.
Khufu. Scarabs of the period of, 24.
Lapidary, Antiquity of the art of the, 30.
Lapis-lazuli. The XXVIth Chapter of the Book of the Dead, incised on, 151.
Lathes. Use of, 22, 32.
Librarians. Ancient, 71.
Libraries. Ancient, 71, 72.
Life and death. The interchange of, 97.
Living. The, the saved or re-born, 151 and note.
Logos. The, 105 and note, 107. See, Word.
Ma, 81, 79. See, Maat.
Maat. The Law or Harmony of all created, 70, 99, 100 and note.
Makrokosm. The, 16, 17 and note.
Manufacture of scarabæi, 18 _et seq._, 27.
Manufacture. Periods of, 21 _et seq._
Materials used in manufacture, 18, 19, 20.
Matter is only transformed, 94.
Mead of amaranthine flowers, 147.
Medical papyrus, Introd. ix., x.
Men governed by their prejudices, 3.
Mena, Introd. vii., 72.
his cartouche inside of the oval form taken from the underside of
the scarab, 38.
Men-kau-Ra. Inscription on the coffin of, Introd. vi.
Mer-en-ra, 83.
Mesopotamia and its relations with Egypt, 41, 42, 43, 44.
Mesopotamia. Egyptian scarabs found in, 62, 63.
Messenger. The, of thy god, 151.
Messenger, the same as angel, 151 note.
Mestha, 109.
Mesxen. The reservoir from which came the new souls, 99 note, 103,
104. See, Souls.
Metaphysicians. Religious, 73.
Metempsychosis. Mistaken ideas as to Egyptian, 97 _et seq._
Mineralogists, 73.
Mirini I., 83, 84.
Motion in all things, 96, 97.
Moses. Reason why he may have omitted putting the doctrine of the
future life of the soul in the Pentateuch, Introd. xv. _et seq._
Moses and belief in the immortality of the soul, Introd. xiii., _et seq._
Mysteries. The Teachers of, 72.
Mummy called the, Husk, also the Sahu, 118, 119.
Names of precious stones in the Ephod of the Hebrew High Priest, 37.
Naukratis. Scarabs of, 27.
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