A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Religion, Agriculture, &c. Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Volume 2

J. Murray, 1841

THOTH Mercury His Duties in Amenti and on Earth	2

A Sow sacrificed at the Full Moon A Typhonian	8

Figure of Female Thoth rare	11

MANDOOLI or Malooli His Worship in Nubia	35

Buried at Butos Athribis in Lower Egypt Another	36

EILETHYIA Lucina Soven? or Sebn? not connected with	42

The Goddesses of the East and West	49

Called the Land of Thrones	61

The Snake with its Tail in its Mouth Snake in mysterious	243

The SOLPUGA Spider Not represented Its Enmity	255

Burial of Bulls and Heifers not confined to Atarbechis	258

Circumcision of great Antiquity in Egypt Obligatory	264

FESTIVALS SACRIFICES	270

239	273

OMENS Much regarded MYSTERIES	275

Dedicatory Offerings Temple decked with Banners	277

NEB? Her Form EHE the Cow Her Character	71

The Four Vases bearing their respective Heads Leaden	73

KHONSO the Third Member of the Theban Triad and	78

A Character of Isis the Defender ? One of the Forms	80

TOTOUON? from Samneh NÊBOO a Form of Neith	87

153	88

SACRED ANIMALS	90

MANY Grades of Sacred Animals Worshipped in some	100

The Vulture her Emblem and the Asp also frequently	102

Form of the Tombs Upper Rooms and Pits	103

Diodorus gives several Reasons for it Gods concealed	104

OTTER not in Egypt Its Name ɛvvopis vague May refer	105

Others made sacred that they might not be eaten Some	111

CROCODILE sacred	123

Scarcely mentioned by Herodotus Destroyed the Eggs	125

The Name of Nou or Nau Horus and the Hours	130

HIPPOPOTAMUS sacred to Mars	131

Exhibited now in Cairo The Cepus	132

Spotted Hyæna Its Habits A Native of Ethiopia	135

This is proved from Ammianus	136

Quarrels consequent upon this Not likely to have hap	149

Erroneously supposed to be emblematic of the Moon	168

His Boat His Dress NOFREATMOO	169

241	171

PANTHER	174

Not honoured in the rest of Egypt An Emblem of Typho	178

Charon and the Styx Cakes in the Tombs The Cake	179

23	186

49	189

50	196

94	210

The Wagtail or MOTACILLA mistaken for the Swallow	214

300	220

51	225

Done in Secret Some Animals killed at the Grave	234

Its Sixty Eggs The Number Sixty Crocodile Mummies	237

The Frog a Type of Man in Embryo With a Palm Branch	283

70	304

Festival of Minerva at Saïs Burning Lamps	308

131	311

Music on these Occasions Melancholy Style	314

AnnexA A 2	319

449	323

The chief Officers at the Initiation	325

Early Offerings Peculiar Oblations to some Gods	338

The Head placed on every Altar and taken to the Kitchen	346

Red Oxen for Sacrifice Redhaired Men said to have	348

The Device on this Seal Usual Mode of slaying a Victim	352

The Holocaust The Libation of Wine a preliminary	357

Various Vases Jewellery and other Things Papyri Small	370

Ointment Mode of anointing Statues of the Gods	371

Men beating themselves before a Mummy another with	376

Interior of a mummy pit or sepulchral chamber at Thebes with	381

Several Priests attended not of the Grade of the Pontiffs	387

453	393

His Name	395

Funeral of a Shekh	407

Remarks on the Statements of Herodotus and Diodorus	411

The Mummies of the Poor had no Form beyond that of	420

Points of Resemblance in ancient and modern Egyptian	424

Mourning for the Death of a Friend The Egyptians did	425

The Intestines of the Dead dedicated to these Four Genii	431

Persons employed in preparing the Body The Under	437

Belief of the Egyptians that secret Crimes were known	439

240	446

Wise Regulations respecting Dead Bodies found either	452

54	462

Prejudice against burning the Body Bandages of Linen	463

413	466

The Mysterious Eye placed over the Incision in the Side	469

101	475

Winged Scarabæus placed on the Breast and on	476

Titre	A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Religion, Agriculture, &c. Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Volume 2 A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Religion, Agriculture, &c. Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
Auteur	John Gardner Wilkinson
Éditeur	J. Murray, 1841
Original provenant de	Université de Princeton
Numérisé	12 janv. 2010

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