A Book of the BeginningsCosimo, Inc., 2007 M03 1 - 516 pages After 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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... divine supplies to her , he built her temple of stone and once more created the divinities in her seat . The temple of the sphinx of Har - Makhu on the south of the house of Isis , ruler of the pyramid , and on the north of ( that of ) ...
... divine supplies to her , he built her temple of stone and once more created the divinities in her seat . The temple of the sphinx of Har - Makhu on the south of the house of Isis , ruler of the pyramid , and on the north of ( that of ) ...
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... divine image in the negroid mould of humanity must according to all knowledge of human nature , have been negroes themselves . For the blackness is not merely mystical , the features and the hair of Buddha belong to the black race , and ...
... divine image in the negroid mould of humanity must according to all knowledge of human nature , have been negroes themselves . For the blackness is not merely mystical , the features and the hair of Buddha belong to the black race , and ...
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... divine name in the series is one that is earlier than the sun , given through the Greek as Hephæstus , to whom no time is assigned , because this deity was apparent both by night and day . This contains matter of great moment not yet ...
... divine name in the series is one that is earlier than the sun , given through the Greek as Hephæstus , to whom no time is assigned , because this deity was apparent both by night and day . This contains matter of great moment not yet ...
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... divine reign of Hephaestus before the time of Ra , and that the stelæ upon which the time was inscribed were set up in the Karuan land beyond the cataracts or the flood , and that as the old dark people came down into the lower parts of ...
... divine reign of Hephaestus before the time of Ra , and that the stelæ upon which the time was inscribed were set up in the Karuan land beyond the cataracts or the flood , and that as the old dark people came down into the lower parts of ...
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... divine dynasties which also are astronomically dated , but have been assumed to be fabulous . It is certain that the dynasty of Mena coincides with the establish- ment of an Osirian myth that is for ever connected with the sun in the ...
... divine dynasties which also are astronomically dated , but have been assumed to be fabulous . It is certain that the dynasty of Mena coincides with the establish- ment of an Osirian myth that is for ever connected with the sun in the ...
Contents
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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 Akkadian ancient Ankh Annwn Atum Bear birthplace breath Brithon British bull cake called cave child circle corn Cornish crossing dead denotes derived divine Druidic Druids Dyved earth Egypt Egyptian mythology Egyptian name enclosure English equinox equivalent extant female feminine festival figure fire Gaelic genitrix goddess gods Greek Gwydion Hathor heaven Hebrew hence hieroglyphics hill hippopotamus Horus identified ideograph inundation Irish island isles Kêd khat Kheb Khebt Kheft Khekh Khem Khen Khent Khepr Khept Kherp Khet Kymry land language lord male means monuments mother mythology Nile nine origin Osiris Ptah Pwyll race reckoning Rekh Renn represented river root round sacred Sanskrit says seat seven signifies solar soul spirit stone Stonehenge symbol Taht Taliesin temple tree Typhon typical Uskh vernal equinox Wales Welsh whence womb word
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Page 238 - 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 316 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 438 - A song of dark import was composed by the distinguished Ogdoad, who assembled on the day of the moon, and went in open procession. On the day of Mars they allotted wrath to their adversaries ; on the day of Mercury they enjoyed their full pomp; on the day of Jove they were delivered from the detested usurpers ; on the day of Venus, the day of the great influx, they swam in the blood of men...
Page 22 - ... 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 341 - Tis their only desire, if it may be done by art, to see their husband's picture in a glass, they'll give anything to know when they shall be married, how many husbands they shall have, by cromnyomantia, a kind of divination with *° onions laid on the altar on Christmas eve, or by fasting on St. Anne's eve or night, to know who shall be their first husband, or by am phitoman tia, by beans in a cake, &c., to burn the same.
Page 146 - If the first man were called in Sanskrit Adima, and in Hebrew Adam, and if the two were really the same word, then Hebrew and Sanskrit could not be members of two different families of speech, or we should be driven to admit that Adam was borrowed by the Jews from the Hindus, for it is in Sanskrit only that Adima means the first, whereas in Hebrew it has no such meaning.
Page 35 - 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 117 - He promised to buy rne a bunch of blue ribbon, To tie up my bonny brown hair.