The dawn of astronomy: A study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians — John Shaqi
The dawn of astronomy: A study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient EgyptiansLockyer, Norman, Sir
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The dawn of astronomy: A study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians
Lockyer, Norman, Sir
Astronomy, Egyptian; Sun -- Mythology; Sun worship; Temples -- Egypt
Plan of the Temple of Rameses II. in
the Memnonia at Thebes 159
Plan of Temples at Medînet-Habû 164
The Bent Axis of the Temple of Luxor 165
The Laying of the Foundation Stone
Ceremonial 174
Plan of the Temples at Karnak Showing
their Orientations _To face p._ 183
Plan of Denderah 192
Ruins of the Mamisi (Place of Birth) or
Temple of Isis at Denderah 195
Ceremonial Procession in an Egyptian
Temple 199
Orientation of the Temple of Hathor at
Denderah 202
Capital, with Masks of Hathor with
Cow's Ears 216
The Cow of Isis 217
Hathor as a Cow 218
Hathor, "The Cow of the Western Hills" 219
The Annual Rise and Fall of the Nile 228
Hāpi, the God of the Nile 229
Different Forms of Thoth 232
Scale of the Nilometer at Rôda 235
The Island of Rôda 236
Conditions of the Heliacal Rising of
Sirius from 4000 B.C. to 600 A.D. 255
The Distribution of the 1st of Thoth
(representing the Rise of Sirius)
among the Egyptian Months in the
1460-year Sothic Cycle 258
Julian Dates of the 1st of Thoth
(Vague) from 23 A.D. and 240 A.D. 267
The Month-Table at the Ramesseum 276
Black Granite Statue of Sekhet from
the Temple of Mut at Thebes 288
The Goddess Taurt; the Goddess Serk-t
or Selk-t (both with Horns and Disk) 289
Nit (two forms of); Bast 290
Anuqa; Sati 291
Isis Nursing Horus 292
Isis, Osiris and Horus 297
A "Change of Cult" at Luxor 298
Curves showing the Declinations of
Some of the Stars used by the
Egyptian Astronomers at Different
Epochs 307
The Temples at Tell el-Amarna 322
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