The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts

by Susan Brind Morrow

Book Overview

A stunning and original interpretation of an ancient system of poetic, religious, and philosophical thought

Buried in the Egyptian desert some four thousand years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world's oldest poetry. Yet ever since the discovery of these hieroglyphs in 1881, they have been misconstrued by Western Egyptologists as a garbled collection of primitive myths and incantations, relegating to obscurity their radiant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374200106
• ISBN13: 9780374200107
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"