Osiris And the Egyptian Resurrection

A comprehensive, scholarly work by Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857 –1934), an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist. Here he offers a complete presentation of one of the most important ancient Egyptian deities, Osiris: his history as it is told by classical writers, Osiris and cannibalism, human sacrifice and dancing and much more. The book contains translations of numerous texts from the temples and tombs of the Egyptians, reproductions of classical Egyptian art and i