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Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414701551
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Tales of the Magicians and Other Stories of Ancient Egypt written by and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Lancelyn Green
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0147519179
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Tales of Ancient Egypt written by Roger Lancelyn Green and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 1967.
Author : Gaston Maspero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt written by Gaston Maspero and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Lamont
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524704458
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of Magic written by Peter Lamont and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pull back the curtain on the real history of magic – and discover why magic really matters If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during the age of witchcraft. You are told how conjuring tricks were used to quell rebellious colonial natives. The history of magic is full of such stories, which turn out not to be true. Behind the smoke and mirrors, however, lies the real story of magic. It is a history of people from humble roots, who made and lost fortunes, and who deceived kings and queens. In order to survive, they concealed many secrets, yet they revealed some and they stole others. They engaged in deception, exposure, and betrayal, in a quest to make the impossible happen. They managed to survive in a world in which a series of technological wonders appeared, which previous generations would have considered magical. Even today, when we now take the most sophisticated technology for granted, we can still be astonished by tricks that were performed hundreds of years ago. The Secret History of Magic reveals how this was done. It is about why magic matters in a world that no longer seems to have a place for it, but which desperately needs a sense of wonder.
Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500052123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Magic written by Christina Riggs and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and informative introduction to how ancient Egyptians practiced magic in their daily lives. In the ancient world, if you needed a love charm, wanted to contact your dead wife, or needed the ability to fly like a bird, the magicians of Egypt were the ones who could make it happen. In Ancient Egyptian Magic, Christina Riggs explores how the Egyptians thought about magic, who performed it and why, and also helps readers understand why we’ve come to think of ancient Egypt in such a mystical way. Readers will learn how to cure scorpion bites, discover why you might want to break the legs off your stuffed hippopotamus toy, and uncover whether mummies really can come back to life. Readers can also learn how to save a fortune on pregnancy tests—urinating on barley grains will answer that question— as well as how to use the next street parade to predict the future or ensure that an annoying neighbor gets his comeuppance. Was magic harmless fun, heartfelt hope, or something darker? Featuring demons, dream interpreters, the Book of the Dead, and illustrations from tomb paintings and papyrus scrolls, Riggs breathes new life into ancient magic and uses early texts and images to illuminate the distinctions between magic, religion, and medicine.
Author : William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Egyptian Tales Translated from the Papyri written by William Matthew Flinders Petrie and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allegra Maria Carasava
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Wizards of Egyptian Tales written by Allegra Maria Carasava and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of seven Egyptian folk tales transports readers to a time of mystery. "Didi the Wizard...He knows how to put back in place a head that has been cut off. He knows how to make himself followed by a lion without a leash. He knows the numbers of the caskets of books in the crypt of Thoth. " With these stories you can discover the word of Egyptian wizards." Seven Amazing Stories from Ancient Egypt with 150+ illustration Size 5.5 x 8.5 Beautiful Gift
Author : Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613102127
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Egyptian Magic written by Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egyptian magic dates from the time when the predynastic and prehistoric dwellers in Egypt believed that the earth, and the underworld, and the air, and the sky were peopled with countless beings, visible and invisible, which were held to be friendly or unfriendly to man according as the operations of nature, which they were supposed to direct, were favourable or unfavourable to him. In -nature and attributes these beings were thought by primitive man to closely resemble himself and to possess all human passions, and emotions, and weaknesses, and defects; and the chief object of magic was to give man the pre-eminence over such beings. The favour of the beings who were placable and friendly to man might be obtained by means of gifts and offerings, but the cessation of hostilities on the part of those that were implacable and unfriendly could only be obtained by wheedling, and cajolery, and flattery, or by making use of an amulet, or secret name, or magical formula, or figure, or picture which had the effect of bringing to the aid of the mortal who possessed it the power of a being that was mightier than the foe who threatened to do evil to him. The magic of most early nations aimed at causing the transference of power from a supernatural being to man, whereby he was to be enabled to obtain superhuman results and to become for a time as mighty as the original possessor of the power; but the object of Egyptian magic was to endow man with the means of compelling both friendly and hostile powers, nay, at a later time, even God Himself, to do what he wished, whether the were willing or not. The belief in magic, the word being used in its best sense, is older in Egypt than the belief in God, and it is certain that a very large number of the Egyptian religious ceremonies, which were performed in later times as an integral part of a highly spiritual worship, had their origin in superstitious customs which date from a period when God, under any name or in any form, was unconceived in the minds of the Egyptians. Indeed it is probable that even the use of the sign which represents an axe, and which stands the hieroglyphic character both for God and "god," indicates that this weapon and. tool was employed in the performance of some ceremony connected with religious magic in prehistoric, or at any rate in predynastic times, when it in some mysterious way symbolized the presence of a supreme Power. But be this as it may, it is quite certain that magic and religion developed and flourished side by side in Egypt throughout all periods of her history, and that any investigation which we may make of the one necessarily includes an examination of the other.
Author : R. Bottigheimer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137380888
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic written by R. Bottigheimer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.
Author : Anon E. Mouse
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8826462364
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book EGYPTIAN TALES - 6 ancient Egyptian Tales written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this small book you will find six distinctive folk tales from the ancient land of Egypt translated and edited by that giant of Egyptology – W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853 – 1942). Petrie was a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artefacts, so we can be sure when he was translating these tales he took care to arrive at the correct translation. Herein you will find the Tales Of The Magicians, Baufra's Tale, Hordedef's Tale, The Peasant And The Workman, The Shipwrecked Sailor and The Adventures Of Sanehat - each with their own set of explanatory remarks and notes appended to the story. Prior to this volume being published in 1899, the tales of ancient Egypt had appeared collectively only in French. The aim of the 22 BnW illustrations, by Tristram Ellis, has been to give a correct picture of the character of each of the various ages to which these tales belong, for there is a definite period assigned to each tale. For each drawing Flinders Petrie searched for the material among the monuments and remains of the age in question – no easy task. The details of the dresses, the architecture, and the utensils, are all in accord with the period of each tale. In the tale of Setnau two different styles are introduced. Ahura is probably of the time of Amenhotep III., whereas Setnau is a son of Ramessu II.; and the change of fashion between the two different dynasties has been followed as distinctive of the two persons, one a ka or double of the deceased, the other a living man. So, whether you’re an academic or someone simply interested in the ancient stories of Egypt, sit back and enjoy this excellent volume of tales.
Author : Gaston Maspero
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019517335X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt written by Gaston Maspero and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought to life for a new generation of readers, this is the definitive anthology of ancient Egyptian tales.
Author : Graham Hancock
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 1444779699
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Magicians of the Gods written by Graham Hancock and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with a book filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light... The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap. The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometres of ice, destabilizing the Earth's crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world. A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis. But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning. They settled at key locations - Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these 'Magicians of the Gods' brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price. A memory and a warning to the future... For the comet that wrought such destruction between 12,800 and 11,600 years may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide 'dark' fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt,warns that the 'Great Return' will occur in our time...
Author : W. M. Flinders Petrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909302341
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Egyptian Tales written by W. M. Flinders Petrie and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this small book you will find six distinctive folk tales from the ancient land of Egypt translated and edited by that giant of Egyptology - W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942). Petrie was a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artefacts, so we can be sure when he was translating these tales he took care to arrive at the correct translation. Herein you will find the TALES OF THE MAGICIANS, BAUFRA'S TALE, HORDEDEF'S TALE, THE PEASANT AND THE WORKMAN, THE SHIPWRECKED SAILOR and THE ADVENTURES OF SANEHAT - each with their own set of explanatory remarks and notes appended to the story. Prior to this volume being published in 1899, the tales of ancient Egypt had appeared collectively only in French. The aim of the 22 BnW illustrations, by Tristram Ellis, has been to give a correct picture of the character of each of the various ages to which these tales belong, for there is a definite period assigned to each tale. For each drawing Flinders Petrie searched for the material among the monuments and remains of the age in question - no easy task. The details of the dresses, the architecture, and the utensils, are all in accord with the period of each tale. In the tale of Setnau two different styles are introduced. Ahura is probably of the time of Amenhotep III., whereas Setnau is a son of Ramessu II.; and the change of fashion between the two different dynasties has been followed as distinctive of the two persons, one a ka or double of the deceased, the other a living man. So, whether you're an academic or someone simply interested in the ancient stories of Egypt, sit back and enjoy this excellent volume of tales.
Author : Loren R. Fisher
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725244926
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Tales from Ancient Egypt written by Loren R. Fisher and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Egyptian tales witness to some of the great moments in the history of Egyptian literature and represent the earliest beginnings in world literature. Many literary critics do not seem to know the importance of Egyptian prose tales told for entertainment (including C. S. Lewis, who does not know that the "marvelous that knows itself as myth" was alive and well by 1800 BCE). Unlike some other ancient states, both Israel and Egypt wrote epic tales in prose. And these great prose stories are important for the study of the Hebrew Bible. Some of the most exciting narrative prose parallels to the Hebrew Bible are found in the stories from Egypt. The details may vary, but in the setting, the purpose, the vocabulary, and the genre of the stories, one can find many similarities. Contents 1 The Story of Sinuhe: A Wanderer on the Earth 2 The Enchanted Prince 3 The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor 4 The Journey of Wen-Amon 5 A Dialogue between a Man and His Ba
Author : Frank Henry Brooksbank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stories of Egyptian Gods & Heroes written by Frank Henry Brooksbank and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samir Sobhy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781482639339
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Tales from Anceint Egypt written by Samir Sobhy and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short story touches upon several subjects of concern to children: the love of knowledge, respect of work, and the sense of responsibility, especially towards one's parents. All these are useful issues to all of us, especially to the young ones, in their present and future. The story tells us about Senofer, a smart boy of ten, who loves reading, and how he was allowed to read pages from a magic book, written by the God of Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Egypt.
Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500775761
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide written by Christina Riggs and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and informative introduction to how ancient Egyptians practiced magic in their daily lives. In the ancient world, if you needed a love charm, wanted to contact your dead wife, or needed the ability to fly like a bird, the magicians of Egypt were the ones who could make it happen. In Ancient Egyptian Magic, Christina Riggs explores how the Egyptians thought about magic, who performed it and why, and also helps readers understand why we’ve come to think of ancient Egypt in such a mystical way. Readers will learn how to cure scorpion bites, discover why you might want to break the legs off your stuffed hippopotamus toy, and uncover whether mummies really can come back to life. Readers can also learn how to save a fortune on pregnancy tests—urinating on barley grains will answer that question— as well as how to use the next street parade to predict the future or ensure that an annoying neighbor gets his comeuppance. Was magic harmless fun, heartfelt hope, or something darker? Featuring demons, dream interpreters, the Book of the Dead, and illustrations from tomb paintings and papyrus scrolls, Riggs breathes new life into ancient magic and uses early texts and images to illuminate the distinctions between magic, religion, and medicine.
