CAUVILLE Sylvie.
Osiris at the sources of the Nile.
Peeters.
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€38,00
| N° d'inventaire | 25294 |
| Format | 17 x 23.5 |
| Détails | 162 p., numerous photographs, paperback. |
| Publication | Louvin, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789042944190 |
The priests of Egypt very early sought to explain the mystery of creation; in the ancient country where everything or almost everything depends on water and its sovereign vector – the Nile – the explanatory stories linked it to Osiris. The place of this cosmic fusion imposed itself naturally; it could only be the place where the river, calmed, takes on its definitive appearance, the First Cataract with its islands of Philae and Biggeh.
Osiris is assimilated to the Nile: the two divine legs become the two branches of the river, separated by the rocks of the Cataract, and the decomposed body is transformed into fertilizing silt. Osiris, venerated throughout Egypt for three millennia, embodies the eternal return of life, the certainty that everything can begin again.
The book's numerous photographs capture the grandiose setting where, on the walls of the various buildings in the place, the essential moments of the Osirian "gesture" are depicted. These representations are occasionally compared with those of the sanctuaries of Abydos or Hibis. The former are distinguished by their unparalleled pictorial success. Those of Hibis contain this or that iconographic detail otherwise unknown.
The course of the action, moreover, can only be fully understood with the help of inscriptions from other temples, that of Dendara in particular, which accompany the scenes with a developed textual commentary.
Osiris is assimilated to the Nile: the two divine legs become the two branches of the river, separated by the rocks of the Cataract, and the decomposed body is transformed into fertilizing silt. Osiris, venerated throughout Egypt for three millennia, embodies the eternal return of life, the certainty that everything can begin again.
The book's numerous photographs capture the grandiose setting where, on the walls of the various buildings in the place, the essential moments of the Osirian "gesture" are depicted. These representations are occasionally compared with those of the sanctuaries of Abydos or Hibis. The former are distinguished by their unparalleled pictorial success. Those of Hibis contain this or that iconographic detail otherwise unknown.
The course of the action, moreover, can only be fully understood with the help of inscriptions from other temples, that of Dendara in particular, which accompany the scenes with a developed textual commentary.
Osiris is assimilated to the Nile: the two divine legs become the two branches of the river, separated by the rocks of the Cataract, and the decomposed body is transformed into fertilizing silt. Osiris, venerated throughout Egypt for three millennia, embodies the eternal return of life, the certainty that everything can begin again.
The book's numerous photographs capture the grandiose setting where, on the walls of the various buildings in the place, the essential moments of the Osirian "gesture" are depicted. These representations are occasionally compared with those of the sanctuaries of Abydos or Hibis. The former are distinguished by their unparalleled pictorial success. Those of Hibis contain this or that iconographic detail otherwise unknown.
The course of the action, moreover, can only be fully understood with the help of inscriptions from other temples, that of Dendara in particular, which accompany the scenes with a developed textual commentary.