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Egyptian Amduat: The Book of the Hidden Chamber (Hardcover)

by Erik Hornung (Author, Editor), Theodore Abt (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 446 pages
  • Publisher: Living Human Heritage Publications Professor Dr. Theodor Abt; Revised edition (9 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 3952260843
  • ISBN-13: 978-3952260845
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.6 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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In the Amduat, the night-journey of the Egyptian Sungod is divided into twelve hours, each of them containing an enormous amount of insight into the human psyche. The entire Amduat could be called the first 'scientific publication' of humankind describing or mapping the dangers, but also the regenerative capabilities of the night-world, providing answers to basic human questions. The synopsis of the different scenes of the Amduat, all in colour, together with its explaining text, is unique. This book is a treasure for all those who want to explore the archetypal structure of the objective psyche, with its helpful but also with its dangerous forces.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A high quality book!, 28 Oct 2009
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One of the leading authority in the study of the ancient Egyptian religion is Erik Hornung, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Basel. His book Der Eine und die Viele(Darmstadt, 1971, translated by D. Lorton, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: the One and the Many, Cornell University Press, 1996) had a considerable impact on better understanding of the phenomena of religion in the Pharaonic civilization. Professor Hornung, beside his didactic activities, undertake an enormous task to study and publish especially the New Kingdom Books of the Netherwold. One of the first such a composition appeared in the King Valley tomb of Tuthmosis I, being named by the Egyptians "Writings of the Hidden Place". Due to the French Egyptologist E. Lefébure, the corpus will be named "Amduat"(after the title of a papyrus from the Late Period),i.e. "(The Book of)what is in the Duat". From that time on, the whole collection of such texts are named Amduat, which describe the journey of the sun god Re(and of the Pharaoh also) in the realm of Osiris, during the 12 hours of the night, after which he became the morning Khepri, the rebirth Sun. After the New Kingdom, the inscriptions with the Amduat preserved on tombs wall and papyri will no longer represent a royal prerogative. Through with the text of the Amduat, the deceased person will be provided with useful information, he needed for his rebirth: about the mysteries of World after dead, the topography of the Underworld, his gates, the names and manifestations acquired by the solar deity during his nocturnal wanderings. If the dead king, and later private persons, will be able to get this information, they will have the possibility to live forever. The first draft on the present book was done by the Egyptologist D. Warburton, later revised by Prof. Hornung. The resulting volume, "The Egyptian Amduat. The Book of the Hidden Chamber", is an impressive book recommended to Egyptologists, libraries, and why not, for every learned person. The text of the Amduat is presented hour by hour, with hieroglyphic text, transliteration, and translation accompanied by pictures related to the texts, which follows the versions established by Prof. Hornung in his Texte zum Amduat, I-III, Geneva, 1987.
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