The Serpent Myths of Ancient Egypt

by W R Cooper

Overview

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783368186364
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	08/18/2023
Pages:	90
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.22(d)

Table of Contents

	Observations on the Serpent Myths of Ancient Egypt	3
	Appendix	74
	Index	87
	List of Illustrations
	Shrine of the great deity Amun-Ra	2
1	Horus-Ra, wearing the solar disk and uraeus	4
2	The deity Sebek wearing the Teshr	5
3	The Sacred Uraeus or Basilisk	5
4	The solar disk encireled by an uraeus wearing the Pschent	6
5	The Cerastes	6
6	Limestone tablet in the British Museum	6
7	Apophis, the destroyer	7
8	Thothmes III. wearing the sacred crown of Osiris	7
9	The basket of the Eleusinian Canephorae	8
10	Egyptian priestess carrying the uraeus	8
11	Upper portion of snake-crested cornice	9
12	An Egyptian standard, bearing a bronze figure of Ranno	9
13	Trident and serpent of Jupiter Ammon	10
14	Staff of Hermes	10
15	The Caduceus or serpent-staff of Mercury	11
16	Staff or club of AEsculapius, the god of medicine	11
17	The serpent and bowl of the goddess Hygeia	11
18	The serpent and dish of the goddess Mant	12
19	Four-winged serpent, Chnuphis or Bait	12
20	Plume of Amun-Ra, and solar disk, with four uraei	13
21	Head of the ram-headed god Chnum	13
22	Symbolic winged serpent of the goddess Mersokar	13
23	Symbolic winged serpent of the goddess Eileithya	14
24	The avenging Cabereii, the tormentors of the dead	14
25	The goddess Chiun, Venus	14
26	Krishna entangled in the folds of the great serpent, Caliya	15
27	Krishna triumphant over Caliya	16
28	The Orphie egg	17
29	The serpent Chnuphis. From a Gnostic gem	17
30	The deity Chnuphis, as a double-headed serpent	17
31	The symbolic serpent of the deity I A [Omega]	18