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The two primary elements were those of darkness and light: Sut was the power of darkness, Horus the power of light. In one representation the two elements were imaged by means of the black bird of Sut and the white bird, or golden hawk, of Horus. Thus we can identify two elemental powers, as old as night and day, which are primeval in universal mythology; and these two powers, or animistic souls, were divinized as the two gods Sut and Horus with the two birds of darkness and light, the black vulture and the gold hawk depicted back to back as their two representative types or personal totems. -from "Elemental and Ancestral Spirits, or The Gods and the Glorified" It goes unappreciated by modern Egyptologists, but it is embraced by those who savor the concept of a "hidden history" of humanity, and those who approach all human knowledge from the perspective of the esoteric. Gerard Massey's massive Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World-first published in 1907 and the crowning achievement of the self-taught scholar-redefines the roots of Christianity via Egypt, proposing that Egyptian mythology was the basis for Jewish and Christian beliefs. Here, Cosimo proudly presents Book 3 of Ancient Egypt, in which Massey explains how the original elemental spirits of early humans were transformed into deities, and how the concept of a "soul" developed from animalistic representations of natural forces. Peculiar and profound, this work will intrigue and delight readers of history, religion, and mythology. British author GERALD MASSEY (1828-1907) published works of poetry, spiritualism, Shakespearean criticism, and theology, but his best-known works are in the realm of Egyptology, including A Book of the Beginnings and The Natural Genesis.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Elemental and Ancestral Spirits, or the Gods and the Glorified
• Author: Gerald Massey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60
• EAN: 9781605203058
• ISBN: 9781605203058
• ID: 08778379
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Weight: 159 g
• Dimensions: 279 × 210 × 3 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. November 2008

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