Egyptian Mythology

The gods of ancient Egypt were involved with every aspect of life, from the creation of the world to ordinary details of everyday life. As well as embracing the sun and the sky, life after death and the fertility of the Nile, the gods reflect the profundity of the beliefs that covered the whole life of every Egyptian.This book recalls these gods, their attributes and the stories about them: Hathor, the goddess of love wearing cow's horns to indicate her origins as a fertility goddess; Thoth, the Ibis-headed god of wisdom and Anubis, who guided souls to judgment., There were more human and appealing figures too±Osiris, brought down by his enemy Set; the loving and sorrowing Isis, wife of Osiris; and Horus, her divine son, whose struggle with Set is one of the great stories of the world. Veronica Ions also tells of the great pharaohs and their ministers who were made gods, and Akhenaten who rejected the gods he could not believe in and fashioned another.