Regressus ad uterum : la mort comme une nouvelle naissance dans les grands textes funéraires de l'Égypte pharaonique (Ve-XXe dynastie) /

Regressus ad uterum : la mort comme une nouvelle naissance dans les grands textes funéraires de l'Égypte pharaonique (Ve-XXe dynastie) /

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Author / Creator:	Arnette, Marie-Lys, 1981- author.
Imprint:	Le Caire : Institut Français D'Archéologie Orientale, 2020.
Description:	xi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language:	French
Series:	Bibliothèque d'étude, 0259-3823 ; 175 IF ; 1187 Bibliothèque d'étude ; t. 175. Publications de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire ; 1187.
Subject:	Future life. Death -- Religious aspects -- Ancient Egyptian religion. Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt. Civilization Death -- Religious aspects -- Ancient Egyptian religion Funeral rites and ceremonies Future life Religion Egypt -- Religion. Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C. Egypt
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12574664

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ISBN:	2724707435 9782724707434
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"This work, stem[ming] from a doctoral dissertation, aims at demonstrating that referring to birth and its practical modalities is an essential aspect of Ancient Egypt's funerary beliefs. From the Pyramid Texts to the books of the afterlife in the New Kingdom, funerary writings of Egypt are full of allusions to post mortem fate viewed as second birth, which imitates more of less precisely the biological process of the first. Be he king or an ordinary man, the dead is carried in gestation by one or several divine mothers and is born again in the afterworld; there his umbilical cord is cut, he is washed, fed and cared for like a newborn child. Numerous mythical elements join the purely practical ones, thus reinventing the biological model and showing the intermingling of both the worldly and cosmic levels. thanks to this cyclic process, not only does the deceased access the hereafter, but he is also eternally alive there." -- Page [4] of cover.

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Summary:	This work, stem from a doctoral dissertation, aims at demonstrating that referring to birth and its practical modalities is an essential aspect of Ancient Egypt's funerary beliefs. From the Pyramid Texts to the books of the afterlife in the New Kingdom, funerary writings of Egypt are full of allusions to post mortem fate viewed as a second birth, which imitates more or less precisely the biological process of the first. Be he king or an ordinary man, the dead is carried in gestation by one or several divine mothers and is born again in the afterworld; there, his umbilical cord is cut, he is washed, fed and cared for like a newborn child. Numerous mythical elements join the purely practical ones, thus reinventing the biological model and showing the intermingling of both the worldly and the cosmic levels. Thanks to this cyclic process, not only does the deceased access the hereafter, but he is also eternally alive there.
Physical Description:	xi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	2724707435 9782724707434
ISSN:	0259-3823 ;