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"The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt" by Jane Sellers

PART ONE: THE STORY AND THE CELESTIAL DOME

1. BEGINNINGS
2. A NECESSARY FOUNDATION
3. THE INHERITOR OF THE THRONE
4. A NECESSARY FOUNDATION: DA CAPO
5. ALLOWABLE QUESTIONS?
   

   PART TWO: EGYPTIAN WRITINGS AND THE QUIET SUN

6. ‘MIGHTY IS YOUR STRIKING POWER’
7. ‘WHO THEN IS IT?
8. THE PYRAMID TEXTS
9. THE 80 YEARS OF THE GODS' CONTENDING
10. ‘WHAT THEN IS THIS?’
    

    PART THREE: THE TIME OF CRISIS

11. THE JUDGMENT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS
12. BIRTHDAY OF COMPLEXITIES & SECRET OF THE WILL
13. THE DIVINE FALCON AND ‘RT
14. A SECOND GUIDE
    

    PART FOUR: THE THRONE OF FIRE

15. DEATH AND REBIRTH OF A CONSTELLATION--A SUMMARY
16. OSIRIS GIVEN THE ‘SILENT LAND’
17. THE KING OF THE WOOD
18. CHANGES IN THE WORLD ORDER AND THE HURLED THUNDERBOLT
19. ‘THAT DAY OF UNITING THE TWO LANDS’

     

    PART FIVE: THE FRAMEWORK OF TIME

20. THE SUCCESSION OF WORLD AGES
21. THE CIVIL CALENDAR --A DEEPLY FELT CONVICTION
22. SIDETRACKED ON THE TRACK OF TIME
23. PURE CHANCE OR CONCEALED NUMBERS?
24. THE DISCOVERY OF A BARLEYCORN
    

    PART SIX: THE ANCIENT BEGINNINGS

25. ASTRONOMICAL GLEANINGS FROM THE SED FESTIVAL
26. THE SED FESTIVAL, PART II
27. ‘IWNW’—‘THE BIRTHPLACE OF EVERY GOD.’
28. SCENE IN THE MUMMY CHAMBER
29. A SENSE OF CONTROL: THE LITANY OF RE & OTHER TEXTS
    

    PART SEVEN: THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES

30. THE BROAD HALL OF THE TWO TRUTHS
31. RITUAL REGICIDE?
32. EMPTY TOMBS
33. MORE DATES AND AKHENATEN’S ECLIPSE
34. THE CONSUMING INTEREST IN THE CELESTIAL UNIVERSE
35. THE PROMISED RETURN
36. RITES OF OSIRIS

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