Osiris or The Egyptian Religion of Resurrection Part 2

By E.A. Wallis Budge

Book Overview

Volume 2 of the most comprehensive, scholarly work on Osiris. Includes translations of numerous texts, reproductions of classical Egyptian art -- iconography, the Heaven of Osiris, liturgy, shrines... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766140679
• ISBN13: 9780766140677
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

sanctum occularis

This two volume set conveys both historical/mythical information concerning Eygptian religious practices and Budge's perceptions of how and why they were practiced. Budge is enamored of the Egyptians and it is demonstrated in his work not just an academician Budge attempted to reconcile his western upbringing with the beauty and philosophy of the Egyptians and their influence on the world. While there have been recent translations from the German and French which add to and perhaps change some of the concepts it in no way takes from the cosmology as interpreted by Budge. That Osiris and his myth was a major factor in the history of Egypt and its religious and philosophical growth is demonstrated by these two volumes from Budge. These were 5 star books when first published and they remain 5 star even with new findings and "new age experts" writing their own interpretations.