The Religion of Ancient Egypt: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Religion of Ancient Egypt, credited to William Matthew Flinders Petrie, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Religion of Ancient Egypt by William Matthew Flinders Petrie. Read in English by Kajo and Piotr Nater. William Matthew Flinders Petrie – the father of Egyptian Archaeology – developed and applied statistical analysis to pottery from prehistoric sites and by this established seriation as a relative dating method as a major contribution to Egyptian Archaeology. In this scientific paper he describes special varieties of the conception of the supernatural in ancient Egypt. The source text also includes a list of "principal works on Egyptian religion" and a list of works "on religions ancient and modern". (Summary by Kajo and Piotr Nater)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Religion of Ancient Egypt
• Author credits: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 1:57:02

Catalogue topics

• religion
• egypt
• gods

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I: The Nature of Gods — 8:46
2. 02 - Chapter II: The nature of man — 7:57
3. 03 - Chapter III: The future life — 9:49
4. 04 - Chapter IV: Animal worship — 10:10
5. 05 - Chapter V: The groups of gods. Animal-headed gods — 11:12
6. 06 - Chapter VI: The human gods — 16:07
7. 07 - Chapter VII: The cosmic gods — 9:30
8. 08 - Chapter VIII: The abstract gods — 5:22
9. 09 - Chapter IX: The foreign gods — 5:21
10. 10 - Chapter X: The cosmogony — 3:58
11. 11 - Chapter XI: The ritual and priesthood — 6:58
12. 12 - Chapter XII: The sacred books — 6:08
13. 13 - Chapter XIII: Private worship — 5:45
14. 14 - Chapter XIV: Egyptian ethics — 5:00
15. 15 - Chapter XV: The influence of Egypt — 4:59

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