Regressus ad uterum. Death as a new birth in the great funerary texts of Pharaonic Egypt. BiEtud 175.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 22980 |
| Format | 20.5 x 28 |
| Détails | 480 p., bound. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724707434 |
This work, based on the author's doctoral thesis, aims to demonstrate the essential nature of the referent of birth in the funerary beliefs of Pharaonic Egypt, as well as the modalities of its implementation. The great Egyptian funerary corpora, from the Pyramid Texts to the Books of the Afterlife of the New Kingdom, are rich in allusions to a post-mortem destiny envisaged as a second birth, modeled more or less faithfully on the biological process of the first. King or private individual, the dead person is carried in gestation by one or more divine mothers, then is brought back into the world in the afterlife, his umbilical cord is cut, he is washed, breastfed and cared for like a newborn. These pragmatic aspects are mixed with numerous mythical elements, the biological model being sometimes largely reinterpreted, which testifies to the interpenetration of the individual plane and the cosmic domain. Through this cyclical process, the deceased not only enters the other world, but also lives there eternally.
This work, based on the author's doctoral thesis, aims to demonstrate the essential nature of the referent of birth in the funerary beliefs of Pharaonic Egypt, as well as the modalities of its implementation. The great Egyptian funerary corpora, from the Pyramid Texts to the Books of the Afterlife of the New Kingdom, are rich in allusions to a post-mortem destiny envisaged as a second birth, modeled more or less faithfully on the biological process of the first. King or private individual, the dead person is carried in gestation by one or more divine mothers, then is brought back into the world in the afterlife, his umbilical cord is cut, he is washed, breastfed and cared for like a newborn. These pragmatic aspects are mixed with numerous mythical elements, the biological model being sometimes largely reinterpreted, which testifies to the interpenetration of the individual plane and the cosmic domain. Through this cyclical process, the deceased not only enters the other world, but also lives there eternally.