Studies on the Vignettes from Chapter 17 of the Book of the Dead : I: the Image of Mś. w Bdst in Ancient Egyptian Mythology.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (164 pages)
- Archaeopress Egyptology Series ; v.16 .
- Archaeopress Egyptology Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- The scene with the cat, serpent and sacred tree, 19th-21st Dynasties -- 18th Dynasty -- 1.1. The Book of the Dead Vignette with the cat, serpent and sacred tree -- 1.2. The vignette with the cat, serpent and sacred tree in Theban tomb decorations and coffins (19th-21st Dynasties) -- 1.3. The iconography of the scene -- Chapter 2 -- Correlation between text and visual image -- 2.1. The textual source for the vignette -- 2.2. Participants of the scene: the problem of identification -- Chapter 3 -- Mś.w Bdšt - the sources and the plot -- Chapter 4 -- Mś.w Bdšt in the context of BD 175A, BD 123, CT Sp. 409, pBrooklyn 47.218.84 and the Book of Heavenly Cow - the Cosmogonic myth dénouement -- Chapter 5 -- Mś.w Bdšt in the Book of Gates -- Chapter 6 -- Mś.w Bdšt - the name and the image -- Chapter 7 -- Essence of mś.w Bdšt in the Egyptian world view -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Catalogue of sources -- Appendix 2 -- Selected texts -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography.
This book is a comprehensive study of the myth of the Egyptian deities mś.w Bdst - 'Children of Weakness' - and the scene depicting the cat, cutting off the head of the serpent under the branches of the isd-tree found on a number of Book of the Dead chapter 17 vignettes.