Five Egyptian Goddesses: Their Possible Beginnings, Actions, and Relationships in the Third Millennium Bce

Five Egyptian Goddesses: Their Possible Beginnings, Actions, and Relationships in the Third Millennium Bce - Paperback

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Five Egyptian Goddesses: Their Possible Beginnings, Actions, and Relationships in the Third Millennium Bce
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Five Egyptian Goddesses: Their Possible Beginnings, Actions, and Relationships in the Third Millennium Bce - Paperback

Five Egyptian Goddesses: Their Possible Beginnings, Actions, and Relationships in the Third Millennium Bce - Paperback

by Susan Tower Hollis
$80.91
$80.91

Book Overview

This volume explores the earliest appearances and functions of the five major Egyptian goddesses Neith, Hathor, Nut, Isis and Nephthys. Although their importance endured throughout more than three millennia of ancient Egyptian history, their origins, earliest roles, and relationships in religion, myth, and cult have never before been studied together in detail.

Showcasing the latest research with carefully chosen illustrations and a full bibliography, Susan Tower Hollis suggests that the origins of the goddesses derived primarily from their functions, as, shown by their first appearances in the text and art of the Protodynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom periods of the late fourth and third millennia BCE. The roles of the goddess Bat are also explored where she is viewed both as an independent figure and in her specific connections to Hathor, including the background to their shared bovine iconography. Hollis provides evidence of the goddesses' close ties with royalty and, in the case of Neith, her special connections to early queens.

Vital reading for all scholars of Egyptian religion and other ancient religions and mythology, this volume brings to light the earliest origins of these goddesses who would go on to play major parts in later narratives, myths, and mortuary cult.
ISBN9781780937151
Author Susan Tower Hollis
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
GenreReligion & spirituality, History, and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages232
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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