1st Edition

Egyptian Literature (Routledge Revivals) Vol. I: Legends of the Gods

By E. A. Wallis Budge Copyright 1912
372 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the trustees of the British Museum: numbering into the thousands and of great cultural and historical... Read more

Preface;  1. The Legend of the Creation  2. The Legend of the Destruction of Mankind  3. The Legend of Rā and the Snake-Bite  4. The Legend of Horus of Edfu and the Winged Disk  5. The Legend of the Origin of Horus  6. A Legend of Khensu Nefer-Hetep and The Princess of Bekhten;  Summary

Biography

E.A. Budge