Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt

About this book

The Egyptian gods rarely behave as distant, orderly rulers. Osiris is murdered and restored, Isis searches for her husband's scattered body, and the sun god must cross a dangerous night to rise again.

Lewis Spence gathers stories of creation, divine kingship, magic and the dead, drawing on ancient texts as understood in his own time. His explanations sometimes reflect early twentieth-century scholarship, but the tales retain their strangeness. Between sacred animals, divine rivalries and the geography of the underworld, Egyptian religion begins to resemble an immense collection of overlapping stories.