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(More customer reviews)In buying this book I was hoping to get an idea of the stories in Egyptian mythology since I knew little about it. I was disappointed however because the author spends too much time in my opinion on the origins for learning the myths rather than the actualy stories. He goes into great detail describing the temples and shrines that the actual glyphs were found in. He even goes to the lengths of telling what museum some of these artifacts can be found in. While this is also an interesting subject, in buying a book entitled Egyptian Myths I was really hoping just to learn what they were.
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The rich panorama of ancient Egyptian mythology has survived through tomb paintings, temple inscriptions, and papyri.This account begins with the creation legends of Heliopolis, Memphis, and Hermopolis and illustrates the intellectual struggles of the Egyptians to explain the beginning of the world.The myths that follow range from stories about the gods -- the murder of Osiris and vengeance of Horus, Isis and the seven scorpions, Sakhmet and the virtual slaughter of mankind -- to fables such as the Shipwrecked Sailor and the Enchanted Island.Through these delightful and often amusing tales, we can appreciate more fully the beliefs and imagination of the ancient Egyptians.
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