Les Astres dans les Textes Religieux en Egypte Antique et dans les Hymnes Orphiques

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Oxbow says: Based on the author’s PhD, this volume studies ‘the celestial bodies in the religious texts of ancient Egypt and in the Hellenic Orphic Hymns’. Maravelia examines the development of astronomical thought and concepts, including those of the sun, moon, stars and planets, in pharaonic Egypt from c.2800-1200 BC drawing on some of the most important religious texts, including the Pyramid texts , Coffin texts and the Book of the Dead . Comparison is then made between these astronomical and cosmological notions and those held by the Orphics in the Orphic Hymns. French text; short summaries in French, English, Greek and German.