A Book of the BeginningsAfter enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet, intellectual and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings, a bold statement that the origin of all civilization lays in ancient Egypt. His assertions, radical at the time-indeed, almost a century before the discovery of three-million-year-old human remains in Africa-resonate loudly today, when molecular biology is making corresponding discoveries alongside the still-raging creation-versus-evolution controversy. In Volume I, Massey lays the foundation of the Egypt-centric position through a scholarly comparative analysis of language, names, and mythology-delving not only into our most basic actions of naming and communicating, but also man's beloved, universal myths of death, awakenings, and love. 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 The Natural Genesis and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World. |
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... races as with arts . The hieroglyphics are older than letters , they come next to the living gesture signs that preceded speech . But less - developed stages are found out of Egypt than in it because Egypt went on growing and sloughing ...
... races as with arts . The hieroglyphics are older than letters , they come next to the living gesture signs that preceded speech . But less - developed stages are found out of Egypt than in it because Egypt went on growing and sloughing ...
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... race . The most ancient portion known of the ritual , getting on for 7,000 years old , shows that not only was the Egyptian mythology founded on the observation of natural phenomena at that time established , but the mythology had then ...
... race . The most ancient portion known of the ritual , getting on for 7,000 years old , shows that not only was the Egyptian mythology founded on the observation of natural phenomena at that time established , but the mythology had then ...
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... races and languages . But not a vestige of evidence has been adduced for the pre - existence of the Egyptian civilisation , art , hieroglyphics , in any other land before these are discovered ready - made in the valley of the Nile ...
... races and languages . But not a vestige of evidence has been adduced for the pre - existence of the Egyptian civilisation , art , hieroglyphics , in any other land before these are discovered ready - made in the valley of the Nile ...
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... race ready - made bag and baggage in the old cataclysmal fashion . But where , he asks , " is the modern Hir - Seshta to lift the veil which still hides the origin of these men of yore ? " Where , indeed ! The Egyptian language , he ...
... race ready - made bag and baggage in the old cataclysmal fashion . But where , he asks , " is the modern Hir - Seshta to lift the veil which still hides the origin of these men of yore ? " Where , indeed ! The Egyptian language , he ...
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... races of the dark land , and in no other . All the four colours , black , red , yellow , and white , meet upon the monuments , and they all blend in Egyptian types . The red men and the yellow are there as Egyptians , with the ...
... races of the dark land , and in no other . All the four colours , black , red , yellow , and white , meet upon the monuments , and they all blend in Egyptian types . The red men and the yellow are there as Egyptians , with the ...
Contents
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Egyptian Origines in Words | 135 |
Egyptian WaterNames | 180 |
Egyptian Names of Personages | 208 |
British Symbolical Customs and Egyptian Naming | 249 |
Egyptian Deities in the British Isles | 311 |
Egyptian PlaceNames and the Record of the Stones | 370 |
TypeNames of the People | 444 |
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abode Akkadian ancient Ankh Annwn Atum Bear birthplace breath Brithon British bull cake called cave child circle corn Cornish crossing dead denotes derived divine Druidic Druids Dyved earth Egypt Egyptian mythology Egyptian name enclosure English equinox equivalent extant female feminine festival figure fire Gaelic genitrix goddess gods Greek Gwydion Hathor heaven Hebrew hence hieroglyphics hill hippopotamus Horus identified ideograph inundation Irish island isles Kêd khat Kheb Khebt Kheft Khekh Khem Khen Khent Khepr Khept Kherp Khet Kymry land language lord male means monuments mother mythology Nile nine origin Osiris Ptah Pwyll race reckoning Rekh Renn represented river root round sacred Sanskrit says seat seven signifies solar soul spirit stone Stonehenge symbol Taht Taliesin temple tree Typhon typical Uskh vernal equinox Wales Welsh whence womb word
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Page 238 - Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
Page 221 - Dumb " cake used for purposes of divination is the Tum cake that reveals, announces, and makes known the secrets of futurity. The thumb, the lower member of the hand is named after the god of the lower world. This too was a type of Tum, the diviner in the dark. Hence the allusion of the witches : — " By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes,™ The thumb foretold.
Page 22 - ... when the river has come of its own accord and irrigated their fields, and having ' irrigated them has subsided, then each man sows his own land and turns swine into it ; and when the seed has been trodden in by the swine, he afterwards waits for harvest-time : then having trod out the corn with his swine, he gathers it in.
Page 266 - Folkstone, who used to select eight of the largest and best WHITINGS out of every boat when they came home from that fishery ; these eights were sold apart from the rest of each " take," and the money was devoted to make a feast on every Christmas 1 Dyer, p.
Page 116 - Sarum use, when there was a marriage before mass the parties kneeled together and had a fine linen cloth (called the care cloth) laid over their heads during the time of mass, till they received the benediction, and then were dismissed.
Page 308 - This blending in one is the reverse to the obverse which is the decussation of the one into the two halves. Horus was the one God of the two horizons, and the cross was the sign of him who " decussated in the form of the letter X!' in the two characters of the child and the Virile God ; the sun that...
Page 35 - Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: and I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation ; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Page 117 - He promised to buy rne a bunch of blue ribbon, To tie up my bonny brown hair.