Conference hydra::dejavu

    Re .0 (Juli):
    
       >I'm going to Egypt in September and plan to see the Pyramids.
       >Does anyone have any experiences or information concerning
       >the Pyramids, Egypt in general, or Egyptian Mythology.
        
    Oh, there are lots of books on Egyptian mythology, which is
    particularly rich because of the many gods and god-combinations.
    There has also been a lot of spurious stuff written about the country,
    because of its very strangeness and remoteness to our cultures (though
    this is more apparent than real: the Greek scholars generally went
    to Egypt to study in Classical times).  In the Ancient History Conference,
    [SX4GTO::ANTIQUITY] there's a note on the country discussing some
    of the cultural/historical aspects of the peoples; in the Religion
    conference [SMURF::RELIGION], there's a note covering some of the
    mythology.
    
    Hope these pointers help.  If you want ANTIQUITIES, press `SEL'
    or KP7.
    
    Steve Kallis,  Jr. 
    

    I hereby point you to Earl Wajenberg of this conference, who has
    studied all of the Egyptian mythologies [note the plural] recently.
    
    							Ann B.

    And *I* hastily point you back to Steve Kallis, who has studied the
    Egyptian myths much more thoroughly than I.
    
    I got my data on Egyptian mythology from:
    
    "From Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt," by E. A. Wallis Budge, Dover
    Publications, New York, 1988. (Reprint of the 1934 edition published by
    Oxford University Press.  You can order this and a number of other
    books on Egyptian mythology, mostly by Wallis Budge, from Dover by
    phone.)
    
    "Life in Ancient Egypt," by Adolf Erman, Dover Publications, New York,
    1971. (Reprint of the original English translation publish in 1894 by
    Macmillan & Co., London.)
    
    and the Larouse Encyclopedia of World Mythology, best found in a public
    library, perhaps in the reference section.
    
    Note that there aren't as many surviving Egyptian myths as there are
    Greek or Norse ones.  Also, as Ann hinted, there were four different
    centers of worship that dominated Egypt at one time or another --
    Thebes, Heliopolis, Hermopolis, and Memphis, if I remember correctly. 
    They would re-tell one another's myths with different gods in the same
    roles, making things rather confusing to a tidy-minded modern trying to
    collect it all into a system.
    
    Earl Wajenberg