CHAPTER IX

THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT

History and literature--1. Animal worship--Theories accounting for it--2. The great Gods--They also are local-- Mythology--Dynasties of gods--Ra--Osiris--Ptah--Was the earliest religion monotheistic?--Syncretism--Pantheism-- Worship--3. The doctrine of the other life--Treatment of the dead--The spirit in the under-world--_The Book of the Dead_-- Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126-157

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THE SEMITIC GROUP

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