Egyptian Divinities: The All Who Are THE ONE

De: Moustafa Gadalla

Narrado por: Susie Hennessy

The Egyptian concept of God is based on recognizing the multiple attributes of the Divine. The book details more than 80 divinities (gods/goddesses), how they act and interact to maintain the universe, and how they operate in the human being - As Above so Below, and As Below so Above.

This expanded version of the book consists of two parts with a total of 12 chapters.

Part I : The All Who Are THE ONE consists of seven chapters - 1 through 7, as follows:

Chapter 1: The One is ALL explains that far from being a primitive, polytheistic form, the Egyptians' ideology is the highest expression of monotheistic mysticism.

Chapter 2: The Divine Energies of the Creation Cycle

Chapter 3: Manifestation of Neteru in the Orderly Creation Process

Chapter 4: Understanding Names, Epithets, & Titles

Chapter 5: Narration of Their Manifestations explains how the cosmological knowledge of Ancient Egypt was expressed in a story form.

Chapter 6: Common Misrepresentations of the Divinities in Egypt

Chapter 7: Man and the Divine Forces covers man's place in the universal order; man as the image of the universe; etc

Part II : The Roles of Most Recognized Neteru (gods/goddesses) consists of five chapters, 8 through 12, as follows:

Chapter 8: Mystical Pictorial Depictions covers pictorial symbolism of the Nneteru; and how do Egyptian depictions reflect metaphysical concepts through the use of human figuration, animal symbolism, accessories, emblems, color, etc., as well as various action forms.

Chapter 9: Most Common Animals and Birds Forms Neteru covers the metaphysical significance of several animal images such as that of the ass, baboon, beetle, Bennu/Benben, bulls, cat, cows [Mehet-Uret (Mehurt, Methyer); Hesat, Hathor], crocodile, dog, egg, falcon, feather, fish, frog, goose, hare, heron, hippopotamus, horse, ibis, lions [lion, lioness & twin-lions(Aker)], Phoenix, rams, serpents, stork, vulture, and winged sun.

Chapter 10: Most Common Male & Androgynous Human Forms Divinities covers the metaphysical significance of several male and androgynous human form images such as:

Amon(Amen, Amun), Anubis (Anbu, Ubuat, Web-wawet), Apis (Epaphus, Hapis), Aton (Adon), Atum (Atem, Atom, Atam),Bes, Geb (Seb, Keb), Hapi (Hepr), Herishef (Harsaphis, Arshaphes, Arsaphes), Horus (Heru) - [also Hor-Sa-Auset, / Horsiesis (or Harsiesis), Heru-p-Khart / Hor-Pa-Khred / Harpocrates, Horus Behdety /Apollo and Heru-ur, / Haroeris/Harueris], Hor.Akhti / Horachti, Khepri (Khepera), Khnum, Khonsu (Khons), Min (Menu, Amsi, Kamutef), Nefertum - [also, The Triad Ptah-Sokaris-Nefertum], Nun/Nu/Ny, Osiris (Ausar, Usire, Asar), Ptah (Phtas, Vulcan), Re (Ra), Re Hor akhti (Rahorakhty), Reshpu (Reshef, Reseph), Sebek, (Sobek, Suchos), Seth (Set, Sutekh, Typhon), Sokaris (Sokar,Sakar, Seqr), Shu, and Thoth [Tehuti,Hermes, Mercury]

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Wonderful Encyclopedia of Neters and Yourself

wonderful systematic run through of the Ennead, Ogdoad, and other various Neters as they existed as personification is the natural world, and aspects of the self in relation to metaphysical aspects to divinity. Wonderful, Mature, and well researched author. of course he plugs other books he wrote that's what you do when you don't want to bloat several books with the same information. He certainly doesn't leave any stones unturned.

Enlightening Read.

Informative book presented in a very digestible format . The only knock that I have against it is the continues plugs for the authors previous work, it got a bit annoying there at the end.