Egyptian Myth and Legend

Table of Contents......Page 2
PREFACE......Page 3
INTRODUCTION......Page 6
CHAPTER I. Creation Legend of Sun  Worshippers......Page 19
CHAPTER II. The Tragedy of Osiris......Page 25
CHAPTER III. Dawn of Civilization......Page 32
CHAPTER IV. The Peasant who became  King......Page 38
CHAPTER V. Racial Myths in Egypt and  Europe......Page 47
CHAPTER VI. The City of the Elf God......Page 52
CHAPTER VII. Death and the Judgment......Page 56
CHAPTER VIII. The Religion of the  Stone Workers......Page 62
CHAPTER IX. A Day in Old Memphis......Page 68
CHAPTER X. The Great Pyramid Kings......Page 74
CHAPTER XI. Folk Tales of Fifty  Centuries......Page 79
CHAPTER XII. Triumph of the Sun God......Page 85
CHAPTER XIII. Fall of the Old  Kingdom......Page 92
CHAPTER XIV. Father Gods and Mother  Goddesses......Page 98
CHAPTER XV. The Rise of Amon......Page 102
CHAPTER XVI. Tale of the Fugitive  Prince......Page 106
CHAPTER XVII. Egypt's Golden Age......Page 114
CHAPTER XVIII. Myths and Lays of  the Middle Kingdom......Page 119
CHAPTER XIX. The Island of  Enchantment......Page 125
CHAPTER XX. The Hyksos and their  Strange God......Page 126
CHAPTER XXI. Joseph and the Exodus......Page 133
CHAPTER XXII. Amon, the God of  Empire......Page 137
CHAPTER XXIII. Tale of the Doomed  Prince......Page 143
CHAPTER XXIV. Changes in Social and  Religious Life......Page 147
CHAPTER XXV. Amenhotep the  Magnificent and Queen Tiy......Page 152
CHAPTER XXVI. The Religious Revolt  of the Poet King......Page 156
CHAPTER XXVII. The Empire of  Rameses and the Homeric Age......Page 162
CHAPTER XXVIII. Egypt and the  Hebrew Monarchy......Page 167
CHAPTER XXIX. The Restoration and  the End......Page 172