Egypt
NWO Library
Carolyn Harris
- Book Review Extract
After Lives, by John Casey. Oxford. 468 pages Wall Street Journal Online Review by Mark Archer Thanks to Stan Parchin for sending the link. British scholar John Casey's wide-ranging study shows the many ways in which mankind has tried to make sense...
- The Mummies And Their Age-old Tales
JoonAng Daily With photographs. In ancient Egypt, people believed in the afterlife and thought that eternal life was possible when the body, soul and life force were wholly merged. They also believed that the soul and the body separate at the time of...
- Exhibition: Egypt Endures At ‘tombs Of Eternity: The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt’
Epoch Times (Susan Hallett) This exhibition has been quite well covered in the Canadian media, and I've posted about it before, but I've added this link because it has better detail than previous articles and the photographs are very good, including...
- Greek Temple Discovered In Alexandria
Egypt State Information Service A team of archaeologists have unearthed a Greek temple in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria, showing that the Greeks worshipped Pharaonic deities more than 2,500 years ago. An official of the expedition said that...
- Exhibition: Death And The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt
Daily Titan Historians have always been fascinated by the culture of Egyptians and their unique approach to life, death, mummification and the possibility of resurrection. Media has shown, however, that it is not only historians who are intrigued by...
Egypt
Online Resource: Egyptian Initiation (article)
NWO Library
Carolyn Harris
Egyptologists like Morenz, Piankoff, Mercer, Frankfort, Faulkner, Assmann, Hornung or Allen have good reasons to stress the difference between the Greek and the Pharaonic perspective on initiation (from the Latin "initio", introduce into a new life). The Egyptians maintained a series of rituals aimed at "a constantly renewed regeneration" (Hornung, 2001, p.14). At best, the Greeks induced the point of death in order to glimpse into its darkness, to "see the goddess" and renew. But they had no "science of the Hades" as in the Amduat. The active continuity between life and death found in Egypt, contradicts the closed and separated interpretation of the Greeks, fostering "escapism" (the "body" as a "prison" out of which one needs to escape). In Egypt, no "new" life was necessary. Death could bring "more" life. For both life and the afterlife depended on identical conditions : offerings ; either directly to the deities through Pharaoh or indirectly to the Ka of the deceased. If dualism fits the Greeks, triadism is Egyptian.
- Book Review Extract
After Lives, by John Casey. Oxford. 468 pages Wall Street Journal Online Review by Mark Archer Thanks to Stan Parchin for sending the link. British scholar John Casey's wide-ranging study shows the many ways in which mankind has tried to make sense...
- The Mummies And Their Age-old Tales
JoonAng Daily With photographs. In ancient Egypt, people believed in the afterlife and thought that eternal life was possible when the body, soul and life force were wholly merged. They also believed that the soul and the body separate at the time of...
- Exhibition: Egypt Endures At ‘tombs Of Eternity: The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt’
Epoch Times (Susan Hallett) This exhibition has been quite well covered in the Canadian media, and I've posted about it before, but I've added this link because it has better detail than previous articles and the photographs are very good, including...
- Greek Temple Discovered In Alexandria
Egypt State Information Service A team of archaeologists have unearthed a Greek temple in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria, showing that the Greeks worshipped Pharaonic deities more than 2,500 years ago. An official of the expedition said that...
- Exhibition: Death And The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt
Daily Titan Historians have always been fascinated by the culture of Egyptians and their unique approach to life, death, mummification and the possibility of resurrection. Media has shown, however, that it is not only historians who are intrigued by...