ISBN: 1231167548

[EAN: 9781231167540], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], CHARLES JAMES MONK,CLASSIC CARS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 66 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic… Plus…

[EAN: 9781231167540], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], CHARLES JAMES MONK,CLASSIC CARS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 66 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: . . . or nncmaaus. 163 Theban hierarchy relates the following anecdote of the historian Hecataeus. When the Grecian traveller boasted of his divine origin, and declared himself to be sixteenth in descent from a god, the priests of Zeus conducted him into the temple, and showed him the mummy-cases of three hundred and forty-five high priests, commencing with the one who had died last, until they came to the first, at the same time affirming that each one was the son of his immediate predecessor, a mortal, the son of a mortal. To the vain boast of Hecataeus, these Theban priests opposed the genealogy of so many generations of men, and scouted the notion that man was the offspring of a Deity. Before the era of the hierarchical government, they said that gods had reigned in Egypt, and had dwelt in the land at the same time with man, but among the former there was always one who ruled supreme, the last being Horus, the son of Osiris, whom the Greeks adopted under the name of Apollo. Among the learned Egyptologers of the present day, whom the spirit of antiquarian research has carried into this wide field of inquiry, there is one whose name is associated with the highest branches of learning and science in this age. The students 1 6 4. CHEVAIIER4 BUNSEN. of history owe no small debt of gratitude to Chevalier Bunsen for his able philological work on the chronology and national history of Egypt. To such of my readers as feel an interest in the investigation of this subject, Iwould earnestly recom mend the perusal of his work upon Egypt, the first volume of which has been translated from the German by Mr. Charles Cottrell, in which they will find a complete analysis of the traditional and written history of Egypt, and a learned disquisition on the mythological and hierog. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 1231167548

[EAN: 9781231167540], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing… Plus…

[EAN: 9781231167540], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: . or nncmaaus. 163 Theban hierarchy relates the following anecdote of the historian Hecataeus. When the Grecian traveller boasted of his divine origin, and declared himself to be sixteenth in descent from a god, the priests of Zeus conducted him into the temple, and showed him the mummy-cases of three hundred and forty-five high priests, commencing with the one who had died last, until they came to the first, at the same time affirming that each one was the son of his immediate predecessor, a mortal, the son of a mortal. To the vain boast of Hecataeus, these Theban priests opposed the genealogy of so many generations of men, and scouted the notion that man was the offspring of a Deity. Before the era of the hierarchical government, they said that gods had reigned in Egypt, and had dwelt in the land at the same time with man, but among the former there was always one who ruled supreme, the last being Horus, the son of Osiris, whom the Greeks adopted under the name of Apollo. Among the learned Egyptologers of the present day, whom the spirit of antiquarian research has carried into this wide field of inquiry, there is one whose name is associated with the highest branches of learning and science in this age. The students 1 6 4. CHEVAIIER4 BUNSEN. of history owe no small debt of gratitude to Chevalier Bunsen for his able philological work on the chronology and national history of Egypt. To such of my readers as feel an interest in the investigation of this subject, Iwould earnestly recom mend the perusal of his work upon Egypt, the first volume of which has been translated from the German by Mr. Charles Cottrell, in which they will find a complete analysis of the traditional and written history of Egypt, and a learned disquisition on the mythological and hierog.<

2012, ISBN: 1231167548

[EAN: 9781231167540], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing … Plus…

[EAN: 9781231167540], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: . or nncmaaus. 163 Theban hierarchy relates the following anecdote of the historian Hecataeus. When the Grecian traveller boasted of his divine origin, and declared himself to be sixteenth in descent from a god, the priests of Zeus conducted him into the temple, and showed him the mummy-cases of three hundred and forty-five high priests, commencing with the one who had died last, until they came to the first, at the same time affirming that each one was the son of his immediate predecessor, a mortal, the son of a mortal. To the vain boast of Hecataeus, these Theban priests opposed the genealogy of so many generations of men, and scouted the notion that man was the offspring of a Deity. Before the era of the hierarchical government, they said that gods had reigned in Egypt, and had dwelt in the land at the same time with man, but among the former there was always one who ruled supreme, the last being Horus, the son of Osiris, whom the Greeks adopted under the name of Apollo. Among the learned Egyptologers of the present day, whom the spirit of antiquarian research has carried into this wide field of inquiry, there is one whose name is associated with the highest branches of learning and science in this age. The students 1 6 4. CHEVAIIER4 BUNSEN. of history owe no small debt of gratitude to Chevalier Bunsen for his able philological work on the chronology and national history of Egypt. To such of my readers as feel an interest in the investigation of this subject, Iwould earnestly recom mend the perusal of his work upon Egypt, the first volume of which has been translated from the German by Mr. Charles Cottrell, in which they will find a complete analysis of the traditional and written history of Egypt, and a learned disquisition on the mythological and hierog.<

2012, ISBN: 1231167548

[EAN: 9781231167540], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… Plus…

[EAN: 9781231167540], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: . or nncmaaus. 163 Theban hierarchy relates the following anecdote of the historian Hecataeus. When the Grecian traveller boasted of his divine origin, and declared himself to be sixteenth in descent from a god, the priests of Zeus conducted him into the temple, and showed him the mummy-cases of three hundred and forty-five high priests, commencing with the one who had died last, until they came to the first, at the same time affirming that each one was the son of his immediate predecessor, a mortal, the son of a mortal. To the vain boast of Hecataeus, these Theban priests opposed the genealogy of so many generations of men, and scouted the notion that man was the offspring of a Deity. Before the era of the hierarchical government, they said that gods had reigned in Egypt, and had dwelt in the land at the same time with man, but among the former there was always one who ruled supreme, the last being Horus, the son of Osiris, whom the Greeks adopted under the name of Apollo. Among the learned Egyptologers of the present day, whom the spirit of antiquarian research has carried into this wide field of inquiry, there is one whose name is associated with the highest branches of learning and science in this age. The students 1 6 4. CHEVAIIER4 BUNSEN. of history owe no small debt of gratitude to Chevalier Bunsen for his able philological work on the chronology and national history of Egypt. To such of my readers as feel an interest in the investigation of this subject, Iwould earnestly recom mend the perusal of his work upon Egypt, the first volume of which has been translated from the German by Mr. Charles Cottrell, in which they will find a complete analysis of the traditional and written history of Egypt, and a learned disquisition on the mythological and hierog.<