The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Moon: Coffin Texts Spells 154-160 by Gyula ...

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Moon: Coffin Texts Spells 154160Author(s): Gyula Priskin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Archaeopress, United Kingdom\nImprint: Access Archaeology\nISBN-13: 9781789691986, 978-1789691986\nSynopsis\nThe Ancient Egyptian Book of the Moon: Coffin Texts Spells [tel] argues that Coffin Texts spells [tel], recorded at around the beginning of the 2nd millennium bce, form the oldest composition about the moon in ancient Egypt and in the whole world. The detailed analysis of these spells, based on a new translation, reveals that the spells provide a chronologically ordered account of the phenomena that happen during a lunar month. It is argued that through a wide variety of mythological allusions, the separate texts after an introduction which explains the origins of the month (spell 154) describe the successive stages of the monthly cycle: the period of invisibility (spell 155), waxing (spell 156), events around the full moon (spell 157), waning (spell 158),.