Legends of the Gods: The Egyptian Texts

Name: Legends of the Gods: The Egyptian Texts
Author: Various (Egyptian); Plutarch

Various (Egyptian); Plutarch · Egyptian · c. 2000 BCE – 100 CE

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge (1912)

64 chapters

Budge's collection of nine Egyptian myth-narratives — the creation, the destruction of mankind, Ra and Isis, Horus of Behutet, the birth of Horus — together with Plutarch's classic *De Iside et Osiride* on the meaning of the Osiris cycle.

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1Preface
2Summary: I. The Legend of the God Neb-er-tcher, and the History of Creation
3Summary: II. The Legend of the Destruction of Mankind
4Summary: III. The Legend Of Ra and Isis.
5Summary: IV: The Legend of Heru-Behutet and the Winged Disk
6Summary: V. Legend of the Birth of Horus, Son of Isis and Osiris.
7Summary: VI. A Legend of Khensu Nefer-hetep and the Princess of Bekhten
8Summary: VII. A Legend Of Khnemu And Of A Seven Years' Famine
9Summary: VIII. The Legend of the Death and Resurrection of Horus, and Other Magical Texts
10Summary: IX: The History of Isis and Osiris
11The History Of Creation--A.
12The History of Creation--B.
13The Legend of the Destruction of Mankind, Chapter I.
14The Legend of the Destruction of Mankind, Chapter II.
15The Legend Of The Destruction Of Mankind, Chapter III.
16The Legend Of The Destruction Of Mankind, Chapter IV.
+ 48 more chapters