About the divinity of the personality of the Dead in the Pyramid Texts
Table of contents
Share
QR
Metrics
About the divinity of the personality of the Dead in the Pyramid Texts
Annotation
PII
S086919080001852-4-1
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Olga Zubova 
Affiliation: Institute of Oriental studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Edition
Pages
96-102
Abstract

The Pyramid Texts contain one of the most important Egyptian ideas about an afterlife destiny of humans – their deification. These texts claim that the dead is Osiris-the King or Osiris-like. The dead is the god Atum and/or the son of Atum who enfolds him in his embrace. The dead King becomes Atum, or completeness/totality of any god. At the same time he does not lose his own personality and his own name. The King as Atum was considered as born in primordial times, in Nun, “when the sky had not yet come into being, when the earth had not yet come into being”. So it is one of the pledges of his immortality. In my opinion, in Ancient Egypt the blessed dead and not only the King as the Pyramid Texts claim, was considered as having non-contradictory divine and a unique human nature. These ancient Egyptian ideas may be closely related to the Christian conception of apotheosis and resurrection.

Keywords
Ancient Egypt, Pyramid Texts, Theosophy, Horus, Osiris, Atum (-Ra)
Received
15.09.2018
Date of publication
28.10.2018
Number of purchasers
13
Views
2347
Readers community rating
0.0 (0 votes)
Cite Download pdf 200 RUB / 1.0 SU

To download PDF you should pay the subscribtion

Full text is available to subscribers only
Subscribe right now
Only article and additional services
Whole issue and additional services
All issues and additional services for 2018

Publication text not found

References

1. Assmann, Jan. Theologie und Weisheit im alten Ägypten. Fink, München 2005.

2. Allen T.G. Occurrences of Pyramid Texts with Cross Indexes of These and other Egyptian Mortuary Texts. Chicago, 1950.

3. Allen J.P. The Egyptian Coffin Texts: Vol. 8: Middle Kingdom Copies of Pyramid Texts. Chicago, 2006.

4. Buck A. The Egyptian Coffin Texts. 7 vols. Chicago, 1935–1961.

5. Erman A., Grapow H. Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache. Bd. I–V. Leipzig–Berlin, 1926–1953.

6. Faulkner R.O. The Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Oxford, 1969.

7. Griffiths J.Gw. The Origins of Osiris and his Cult. Leiden, 1980.

8. Otto E. Das Ägyptische Mundöffnungsritual. Teil I: Text. Wiesbaden, 1960.

9. Sethe K. Die altägyptische Pyramidentexte. Bd. I–II, Leipzig, 1908–1922.

10. Žaba Z. Les Maximes de Ptahhotep. Prague, 1956.

Comments

No posts found

Write a review
Translate