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Scarab Symbolism of the Ancient World (Large Print Edition)

Scarab Symbolism of the Ancient World (Large Print Edition)

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Ancient Egypt

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ISBN13: 9798232761608
Publisher: TV Quantum Universe
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In ancient Egypt, the scarabaeus was already the symbol of an elevated religious idea, embracing a human soul's future life, its resurrection from the grave, and, most likely, its reward or punishment in the next life, based on its conduct in life.

As far as we have determined, the use of scarabaeus models as symbols of new life and the future eternal life of the triumphant or justified dead pre-existed in the earliest historical knowledge we have about Ancient Egypt. An inscription on the lid of the coffin of Men-Kau-Ra, king of the fourth Memphite Dynasty (circa 3633-3600 B.C.), and builder of the Third Pyramid at Giza, confirms that some of the most elevated conceptions of the Per-em-hru, i.e., the so-called Book of the Dead, existed as accepted facts. The dead One became an Osiris during this early period, living forever.

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