A Book of the BeginningsAfter enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet, intellectual and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings, a bold statement that the origin of all civilization lays in ancient Egypt. His assertions, radical at the time-indeed, almost a century before the discovery of three-million-year-old human remains in Africa-resonate loudly today, when molecular biology is making corresponding discoveries alongside the still-raging creation-versus-evolution controversy. In Volume I, Massey lays the foundation of the Egypt-centric position through a scholarly comparative analysis of language, names, and mythology-delving not only into our most basic actions of naming and communicating, but also man's beloved, universal myths of death, awakenings, and love. British author GERALD MASSEY (1828-1907) published works of poetry, spiritualism, Shakespearean criticism, and theology, but his best-known works are in the realm of Egyptology, including The Natural Genesis and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World. |
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Contents
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| 49 | |
| 83 | |
Egyptian Origines in Words | 135 |
Egyptian WaterNames | 180 |
Egyptian Names of Personages | 208 |
British Symbolical Customs and Egyptian Naming | 249 |
Egyptian Deities in the British Isles | 311 |
Egyptian PlaceNames and the Record of the Stones | 370 |
TypeNames of the People | 444 |
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abode according ancient appears applied Bear become beginning belonging birth boundary breath British cake called carried child circle common corn crossing custom dead denotes derived determinative divided divine double earlier earth Egypt Egyptian English equinox equivalent extant female feminine figure fire followed four genitrix give goddess gods Greek hand head heaven Hebrew hence hieroglyphics hill Horus identified ideograph Irish island isles kind king known land language later light living lord lower male means measure monuments mother mythology nature nine origin passed period person present probably race relation represented river root round sacred says seat sense seven signifies solar soul spirit stone symbol temple thing tree Truths Turn typical Welsh woman word writing
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Page 237 - Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
Page 220 - Dumb " cake used for purposes of divination is the Tum cake that reveals, announces, and makes known the secrets of futurity. The thumb, the lower member of the hand is named after the god of the lower world. This too was a type of Tum, the diviner in the dark. Hence the allusion of the witches : — " By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes,™ The thumb foretold.
Page 21 - ... when the river has come of its own accord and irrigated their fields, and having ' irrigated them has subsided, then each man sows his own land and turns swine into it ; and when the seed has been trodden in by the swine, he afterwards waits for harvest-time : then having trod out the corn with his swine, he gathers it in.
Page 265 - Folkstone, who used to select eight of the largest and best WHITINGS out of every boat when they came home from that fishery ; these eights were sold apart from the rest of each " take," and the money was devoted to make a feast on every Christmas 1 Dyer, p.
Page 115 - Sarum use, when there was a marriage before mass the parties kneeled together and had a fine linen cloth (called the care cloth) laid over their heads during the time of mass, till they received the benediction, and then were dismissed.
Page 307 - This blending in one is the reverse to the obverse which is the decussation of the one into the two halves. Horus was the one God of the two horizons, and the cross was the sign of him who " decussated in the form of the letter X!' in the two characters of the child and the Virile God ; the sun that...
Page 34 - Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: and I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation ; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Page 116 - He promised to buy rne a bunch of blue ribbon, To tie up my bonny brown hair.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Book of the Beginnings Cosimo Classics: Metaphysics |
| Author | Gerald Massey |
| Publisher | Cosimo, Inc., 2007 |
| ISBN | 1602068291, 9781602068292 |
| Length | 516 pages |
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