By Felix Guirand
Right here, in all their ask yourself and beauty, are the Mythologies of Mankind.. from pre-biblical Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece to the farthest researches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific and the Americas.. all accrued into one enormous quantity of unparalleled scope and sweetness, and illustrated with an incomparable scope and wonder, and illustrated with an incomparable assemblage of genuine work, sculpture, symbols, idols, ritual and sacrificial gadgets, many infrequently noticeable by way of glossy Western eyes.
This huge paintings is the 1st entire encyclopedia of global anthology. initially released in France by means of the well-known residence of Larousse, it includes after all the entire well-loved myths of Classical Antiquity. yet greater than part the booklet is dedicated to the unusual and strange mythologies of civilizations...from Peru to Persia, from Tahiti to Togoland.
Nearly six hundred Illustrations
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C. when Ergamenes thro off the priests' yoke and had them put to death. ’ Elsewhere he gives the breath of lifeli him and grants him long years of reign. He hands him the khepd of battle and, trampling the vanquished underfoot, delivers ow enemy towns. Finally Amon is shown holding on his knees tin queen with whom he will unite in order to produce the next Pharaol his son. Mut Being Amon-Ra's wife, was identified by the Greeks with Hera. ’ She is represented as a woman wearing a headdressi the form of a vulture, an ideogram of her name.
Sovereign of Thebes, Amon extended his power beyond tk frontiers of Egypt into Ethiopia where, through his oracles I Napata and Meroe, he himself chose the kings. C. when Ergamenes thro off the priests' yoke and had them put to death. ’ Elsewhere he gives the breath of lifeli him and grants him long years of reign. He hands him the khepd of battle and, trampling the vanquished underfoot, delivers ow enemy towns. Finally Amon is shown holding on his knees tin queen with whom he will unite in order to produce the next Pharaol his son.
We shall now review, in the chronological order in which their dynastic importance appears most marked, certain other divinities. Nekhebet Who was identified by the Greeks as Eileithyia, pro-tetress of childbirth, was from the earliest times the protective Goddess of Upper Egypt. The centre of her cult was at El Kab, former Nekheb, which the Greeks called Eileithyiaspolis, apitalof the oldest kingdom in the South. In war and offertory scenes she often appears hovering over the Pharaoh's head in the form of a vulture, holding in her claws the fly-whisk and the seal.