A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

by George Hart

Book Overview

Details the major gods and goddesses and presents a broad survey of others, giving a picture of the complexity of Egyptian mythology. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415059097
• ISBN13: 9780415059091
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Starter Reference Or Quick Info Source

This book is fantastic for the beginner student of Ancient Egyptian deities, as well as for the individual who has more knowledge and needs an occasional reference source to point them in the right direction. While it does have information on more obscure deities, this is not the book to look to for in-depth details or background information. It does perfectly serve its purpose in giving you the information you need in order to get to the correct in-depth resource, however. I have found it to be an excellent aid to my studies. Also a great gift for trivia buffs, history lovers, and lifelong world faith tradition students. A very good read that I highly recommend.

useful comprehensive reference of Egyptian gods & goddesses

This dictionary not only lists famous Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses (for instance Hathor, Isis, Osiris and Geb), but also foreign and lesser-known deities, from Aken to Yamm. It presents all those worshipped at some point in Ancient Egyptian history. The information of each god and goddess given include the deity's attributes, such as sceptres, crowns and animal form. Illustrated with a few black and white illustrations, it is a most useful reference for students of Egyptology and mythology.

Great book

This is the first book about the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt that I have seen has been any good. It lists all the important and less important gods alphabetically. Some even have discriptions. It mainly shows what they were a god of, and some have short myths and legends about them. Of course if you want to learn more about a certain myth or god you will need a different book. But if you want to learn the jist of it, then this book is for you.

Excellent Reference

If someone is looking for a comprehensive reference on the Egyptian Gods/Goddesses then this is it. This book is organized in a "dictionary-style" manner, and has many listings of deities that are not found in any other reference book; there are also many line drawings of the deities. This is always the first book I pull from my shelf, when I want information on a God Goddesses.

Thorough, helpful and insightful

This book has a listing of every major (and many, many minor!) Gods in the Egyptian pantheon. I use it quite frequently as a reference to the dieties of Egypt. It's facinating. ^_^ Myths are presented with the Gods, stories that aren't nearly as well known as the myths about the Gods of Rome or Greece, but are just as interesting. There are black and white illustrations for many of the Gods as well.