The Realms of the Egyptian Dead According to the Belief of the Ancient Egyptians (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Realms of the Egyptian Dead Consistent with the Belief of the Ancient Egyptians

According to the text, this deluge which covered the trees and drove the Sun-god to the mountains came up from beneath, as the Egyptians supposed to be the case with the Nile flood. A similar story was once probably at the source of the Platonic dialogue Timaeus, in which Egyptian authori ties are steadily quoted. There it is used as an argument to deny the flooding of the world and the destruction of its inhabitants – so far, no less than, as Egypt is concerned. For, Consistent with Plato, it was once by similar floods in other lands that towns perished, and only the herdsmen were saved in Egypt, alternatively, neither then nor at any other time did water flow down from above upon the fields; it came up from below, and hence it was once that in Egypt were preserved the memorials of precedent days.

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