egyptian hieroglyphs book of the heavenly cow

Parrot ( talk) 01:21, 11 November 2011 (UTC) External links modified The only content that I actually merged into this article was the sentence about the Akhenaten connection, plus two external links (one with the Budge translation, one with the original hieroglyphs.) A. Therefore, I did not include that content in this article, although where possible I replaced it with my own content, supported by my own sources. A lot of the text in the other article, analyzing the book, was sourced to a website that didn't seem to have anything except the bare translation by Budge. Parrot ( talk) 20:07, 26 October 2011 (UTC) Nobody objected, even the creator of the other article, so I went ahead and merged. There's really no reason the whole text shouldn't be covered in a single article. The part of the story described in The Legend of the destruction of mankind is the impetus for the god's withdrawal and the subsequent reorganization of the cosmos.

The book also compares the death of the pharaoh and his spirit's flight into the afterlife-which is the purpose of the whole book, because it is a funerary text-to the sun god's original withdrawal to the sky. Really, though, that text is simply the first part of the unified Heavenly Cow narrative in the remaining portion Re withdraws into the sky, apparently tired of governing the rebellious humans, and begins the cyclical journey to and from the underworld that the Egyptians saw as the cause of day and night. The 'Destruction of Mankind' title was applied by Miriam Lichtheim to the portion of the Book of the Heavenly Cow that she translated in Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume II. I believe The Legend of the destruction of mankind should be merged here. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture - Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Any other candidates?Ī boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)Īnyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have. We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt.

Egyptian hieroglyphs book of the heavenly cow