MYTH AND SYMBOL IN ANCIENT EGYPT
WITH I8 PLATES, 40 LINE DRAWINGS, A CHART OF RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS AND A MAP
This classic study remains the best single introduction - to the Egyptian mythological world. The Egyptians lived apart from the rest of the ancient world, and it is this isolation that makes their ideas so difficult to appreciate and interpret. Egyptian thought was presented in terms of mythology: myth was used to convey insights into the workings of nature and the ultimately indescribable realities of the soul.
R.T. Rundle Clark gives us an excellent and valuable introduction to the Egyptian mythological world, based upon the most reliable interpretations of their principal myths. In telling the myths, he allows the texts to speak for themselves as far as possible and gives considerable attention
to the philosophical ideas that the myths were trying to express - ideas that foreshadowed the philosophy of the Greeks and even touched on the perennial themes of Christian theology.
'The themes of the High God and of Osiris have rarely been treated with such understanding in English' - THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
R.T. RUNDLE CLARK was for many years Senior Tutor and Lecturer on Ancient History at Birmingham University where he pioneered courses in Ancient Egyptian Language for adult students.
