Mythological stories -- The Great Ennead of Heliopolis -- The adventures of Ra -- The adventures of Osiris and Isis -- Horus -- Horus' battle with Seth -- Hathor -- The triad of Memphis -- The triad of Thebes -- Thoth and Maat -- Anubis -- Three fertility gods -- Postscript -- Appendices: Glossary ; The gods at a glance ; Brief chronology ; Ancient Egyptian calendar.

"With hundreds of illustrations and specially commissioned drawings, this is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the deities that lay at the heart of Egyptian religion and society."--Jacket.

Presents the myths of the ancient Egyptians and a glimpse of the civilization that created them.

Photographs and text provide an introduction to the gods, goddesses, and religion of the ancient Egyptians.

Join Egyptologist Garry J. Shaw on a tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris, and their enemies and allies, tales of vengeance, tragedy, and fantastic metamorphoses. The myths of ancient Egypt have survived in fragments of ancient hymns and paintings on the walls of tombs and temples, spells inked across coffins and stories scrawled upon scrolls. Shaw not only...