# Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt

Author: Spence, Lewis, 1874-1955; Paul, Evelyn, 1883-1963 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43662

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Myths+and+Legends+of+Ancient+Egypt+Spence&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The group of beliefs which constituted what for convenience' sake is called the Egyptian religion in an existence of some thousands of years passed through nearly every phase known to the student of comparative mythology. If the theologians of ancient Egypt found it impossible to form a pantheon of deities with any hope of consistency, assigning to each god or goddess his or her proper position in the divine galaxy as ruling over a definite sphere, cosmic or psychical, it may be asked in what manner the modern mythologist is better equipped to reduce to order elements so recondite and difficult of elucidation as the mythic shapes of the divinities worshipped in the Nile Valley. But the an...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI: EGYPTIAN LITERATURE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-and-legends-of-ancient-egypt-43662/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV: THE CULT OF OSIRIS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-and-legends-of-ancient-egypt-43662/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V: THE GREAT GODS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-and-legends-of-ancient-egypt-43662/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII: FOREIGN AND ANIMAL GODS: THE LATE PERIOD](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-and-legends-of-ancient-egypt-43662/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTORY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-and-legends-of-ancient-egypt-43662/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII: MAGIC](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-and-legends-of-ancient-egypt-43662/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II: EXPLORATION, HISTORY, AND CUSTOMS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-and-legends-of-ancient-egypt-43662/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX: EGYPTIAN ART](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-and-legends-of-ancient-egypt-43662/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter cxlviii (_Saïte Recension_) is to be recited "on the day of the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-and-legends-of-ancient-egypt-43662/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III: THE PRIESTHOOD: MYSTERIES AND TEMPLES](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-and-legends-of-ancient-egypt-43662/chapters/3/index.md)