Studies on the Vignettes from Chapter 17 of the Book of the Dead: I: the Image of Ms.w Bdst in Ancient Egyptian Mythology (Archaeopress Egyptology): 16 - Softcover

Mykola Tarasenko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784914509 ISBN 13: 9781784914509

Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2016

Synopsis

Among the numerous deities in the ancient Egyptian mythology, whose nature and function are still vague and obscure, are ms.w Bdst - 'Children of Weakness'. These beings are twice mentioned in the Book of the Dead chapter 17. The text fragments contain two local versions of the myth with ms.w Bdst - Hermopolitan (Urk. V: Abs. 1), and Heliopolitan (Urk. V: Abs. 22). Since the last text describes the combat between Re and the 'Children of Weakness', the same is likely to be reflected on the vignette, which depicts the battle of Re against ms.w Bdst, metaphorically shown in the form of a serpent. This book is a comprehensive study of the 'Children of Weakness' myth and the scene depicting the cat, cutting off the head of the serpent under the branches of the isd-tree found on the number of Book of the Dead chapter 17 vignettes.

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About the Author

Dr Mykola Tarasenko is a Senior Fellow at the A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyev. His research area is focused on the studies of illustrative tradition of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, and specifically the vignettes of spell 17. In 2007 he was awarded the fellowship grant of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) for the study course at the 'Bonn Book of the Dead Project' (Bonn Totenbuchprojekt). In 2014 he won the fellowship grant of the Stiftungsfonds fur Postgraduates der Agyptologie (Vienna, Austria). The current book is the result of his work within these Fellowships Projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784914509
• ISBN 13: 9781784914509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160