Egyptian mythology

[the_old_soul]

Anyone know of any reliable sites/books/other references for Egyptian mythology? Just a sudden interest I don't want to turn fluffy.

Comments

[c_korone]

Hopefully vireoibis doesn't mind if I repeat her recommendations made on reconlibrary:

Allen, George (translator). The Book of the Dead: Or, Going Forth by Day: Ideas of the Ancient Egyptians Concerning the Hereafter As Expressed in Their Own Terms. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1975. ISBN 0226624102
Or
Faulkner, R.O. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day. Carol Andrews (Editor). 1990. University of Texas Press; ISBN: 0292704259 (paperback)
Or
Faulkner, R.O. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Copyright 1969. Oxford University Press. England. ISBN 0-19-815437-2
Or
Faulkner, R. O. The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, Vol. I, Spells 1-354. Aris & Phillips, Ltd. 1973. ISBN 0-85668-005-2
Faulkner, R. O. The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, Vol. II, Spells 35-787. Aris & Phillips, Ltd. 1977. ISBN 0-8566-005-2
Faulkner, R. O. The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, Vol. III, Spells 788-1185 and Indexes. Aris & Phillips, Ltd. 1978. ISBN 0856681040

Casson, Lionel. Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. ISBN

[kethlenda]

Rosalie David has a newer book as well, Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt. It sort of goes through the whole history of Egypt and ties it in with the religious aspects.

[gothic_oreo]

This is an excellent book, and I was going to suggest it, but you beat me to it.

[fritterfae]

The general old school source for Egyptian information (not sure on mythology) is Sir. E.A. Wallace Budge.

[fritterfae]

Stargate brings a tear to my eye.
Perhaps I should not have watched while high.

[gothic_oreo]

Aye, too bad he made a lot of stuff up.

[rniteflyer]

Look for anything written by John Anthony West.

[gothic_oreo]

Stay away fronm the House of Netjer, the only thing they reconstruct is being in a cult.

[sphinxmuse]

the only thing they reconstruct is being in a cult

How so?

I don't completely agree with all of their phlosophies myself (I have no desire to have a new Pharaoh incarnate, and I'm actually more of a polytheist than a monaltrous(?) person), but as far as I know the information on the Netjeru they present on their site is pretty historically accurate.

[gothic_oreo]

Well, aside from the whole monalatry thing, and mistransalations, And a lot of other things.

Scratch just a few inches and it is all hot air honestly.

As far as the cult allegations, do a google search on them, you will find quite a bit.

[sphinxmuse]

As far as the cult allegations, do a google search on them, you will find quite a bit.

Well, since it seems that they're a very close knit so-called "alternative religious" group with a strong central spiritual leader, I guess it's not all that surprising that they might get accused of being a cult. I'm just wondering where those accusations are coming from (other Kemetic Pagans, fundamentalist Christian groups who might see virtually anything non-Christian as a dangerous cult, or by some of the so-called cult experts?). I will have to check out google though to see what I can find.

[sphinxmuse]

If you're looking for websites, you could try
House of Netjer's Glossary of Netjer: http://www.kemet.org/glossary
Ancient Egypt, the Mythology: http://www.egyptianmyths.net/
The Enyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org
If you have specific questions, venture over to kemet

For information on some specific Netjeru:
http://www.per-bast.org :Bast
http://www.per-set.org :Set
http://www.seshat.org :Seshat
http://www.asetnet.net/ :Aset (Isis)

In the book department, I would recommend:
George Hart's Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
Veronica Ion's Egyptian Mythology

Hope that helps!

[zebi]

Per-Djehuty, for information on Thoth! :)

[sphinxmuse]

Ooooo...I wasn't aware of that one!

I will have to add it to my personal list :-)