Egyptian Myth and Legend: Page Index

Preface

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Contents

Introduction

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Chapter I: Creation Legend of Sun Worshippers

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Chapter II: The Tragedy of Osiris

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Chapter III: Dawn of Civilization

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Chapter IV: The Peasant who became King

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Chapter V: Racial Myths in Egypt and Europe

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Chapter VI: The City of the Elf God

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Chapter VII: Death and the Judgment

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Chapter VIII: The Religion of the Stone Workers

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Chapter IX: A Day in Old Memphis

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Chapter X: The Great Pyramid Kings

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Chapter XI: Folk Tales of Fifty Centuries

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Chapter XII: Triumph of the Sun God

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Chapter XIII: Fall of the Old Kingdom

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Chapter XIV: Father Gods and Mother Goddesses

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Plate I: The Girl Wife and the Bata Bull

Plate II: The Farmer Plunders the Peasant

Plate III: Senuhet Slays the Warrior of Tonu

Plate IV: Queen Ahmes (Wife Of Thothmes I), Mother of the Famous Queen Hatshepsut

Plate V: Luring the Doom Serpent

Plate V: Fowling Scene

Plate VI: Farm Scene: The Counting and Inspection of the Geese

Plate VII: Pastime in Ancient Egypt Three Thousand Years Ago

Chapter XV: The Rise of Amon

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Chapter XVI: Tale of the Fugitive Prince

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Chapter XVII: Egypt's Golden Age

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Chapter XVIII: Myths and Lays of the Middle Kingdom

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Chapter XIX: The Island of Enchantment

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Chapter XX: The Hyksos and their Strange God

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Chapter XXI: Joseph and the Exodus

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Chapter XXII: Amon, the God of Empire

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Chapter XXIII: Tale of the Doomed Prince

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Chapter XXIV: Changes in Social and Religious Life

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Chapter XXV: Amenhotep the Magnificent and Queen Tiy

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Chapter XXVI: The Religious Revolt of the Poet King

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Chapter XXVII: The Empire of Rameses and the Homeric Age

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Chapter XXVIII: Egypt and the Hebrew Monarchy

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Chapter XXIX: The Restoration and the End

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