Zago, S 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3266-0460
(2012)
Il mito nell’antico Egitto nel caso dei Testi delle Piramidi: nuovi approcci e metodologie.
Il futuro nell'archeologia. Il contributo dei giovani ricercatori: atti del IV Convegno Nazionale dei Giovani Archeologi, Tuscania (VT), 12-15 Maggio 2011.
pp. 149-154.
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Abstract
The presence or absence of myth in the Pyramid Texts has always been a matter of contention for Egyptologists since German scholars started to deal with the subject in the second half of the 19th century, making the status of myth one of the most problematic aspects concerning Egyptian religion and texts. Proceeding from a revisionist approach, this study examines the textual evidence from a "mythical point of view". Going through different features of this corpus, in particular the funerary ideology and the religious ideas therein enclosed, all the spells of the Pyramid Texts have been inspected looking for myths concealed behind the allusive language and the magical power of the words. The attention has been focused on those texts which displayed some kind of mythical traces and, collecting those referring to the same mythical account, it has been possible to identify and reconstruct the mythical traditions spread throughout the spells, proceeding also from their versions which have been passed on at later times. After his detailed analysis of the whole corpus, the author feels it to be like a sort of huge myth in itself, allowing the king to enter a new world after his death and creating a new form of – mythical – existence for him who is destined to live his eternity in company of the gods. The innovative conclusion of this study thus is that myth in the Pyramid Texts exists, but not in the narrative form which had always been looked for, instead through mythical allusions
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| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2019 07:58 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:26 |
| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3054707 |
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