Following Osiris: Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four MillenniaOxford University Press, 2017 - 635 páginas Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. The earliest secure evidence for belief in him dates back to the fifth dynasty (c.2494-2345BC), but he continued to be worshipped until the fifth century AD. Following Osiris is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and the deceased, or what might be called the Osirian afterlife, asking what the nature of this relationship was and what the prerequisites were for enjoying its benefits. It does not seek to provide a continuous or comprehensive account of Egyptian ideas on this subject, but rather focuses on five distinct periods in their development, spread over four millennia. The periods in question are ones in which significant changes in Egyptian ideas about Osiris and the dead are known to have occurred or where it has been argued that they did, as Egyptian aspirations for the Osirian afterlife took time to coalesce and reach their fullest form of expression. An important aim of the book is to investigate when and why such changes happened, treating religious belief as a dynamic rather than a static phenomenon and tracing the key stages in the development of these aspirations, from their origin to their demise, while illustrating how they are reflected in the textual and archaeological records. In doing so, it opens up broader issues for exploration and draws meaningful cross-cultural comparisons to ask, for instance, how different societies regard death and the dead, why people convert from one religion to another, and why they abandon belief in a god or gods altogether. |
Conteúdo
Introduction | 1 |
Prelude to Osiris I Conceptions of the Afterlife in Prehistoric and Predynastic Egypt | 8 |
Prelude to Osiris II Conceptions of the Afterlife in the Early Dynastic Period and the First Half of the Old Kingdom | 41 |
Unreading the Pyramid Texts So Who is Osiris? | 107 |
Democratizing the Afterlife? Aspects of the
Osirian Afterlife during the Transition
from the Late Old Kingdom to the
Middle Kingdom | 166 |
Re Resting in Osiris Osiris Resting in Re Osiris Sun God and the Deceased in the New Kingdom | 271 |
New Rulers New Beliefs? Osiris and the Dead during the Transition from the Late Period to the Ptolemaic Period | 356 |
Where is the King of the Two Lands? The End of Belief in the Osirian Afterlife | 421 |
Summary of Results Why Osiris? | 538 |
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Termos e frases comuns
Abydos afterlife Ägypten Akhenaten Akhmim altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte Amduat Amun Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian Anubis Archaeology attested Bárta burial Cairo cemetery century cited Coffin Text spells Coffin Texts conception context Coulon cult cultic dead deceased king deceased’s deity demotic depicted divine Early Dynastic Effland Egyptian Coffin Texts Egyptian history Egyptology example fifth dynasty Funerary god’s gods graffiti Greek Hathor Hornung Horus Ibid identified imakh inscribed inscriptions Intermediate Period Isis Khentiamentiu king’s later locution mastaba MDAIK Middle Kingdom mummy labels non-royal offering formulas Old Kingdom Osirian Osirian afterlife Osiris Osiris of NN Papyrus Philae plate predynastic private tombs Ptolemaic Period Pyramid Text spells Pyramid Texts Ramesses Ramesses II recited reign relationship between Osiris religious rites ritual Roman Period royal ruler Saqqara Sarapis scene Sethe Smith Sokar solar sources status stela Strudwick temple Theban Thebes tomb owner Traversing Eternity Umm el-Qaab underworld Wiesbaden