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The dawning moon of the mind : unlocking the pyramid texts / Susan Brind Morrow.

by Morrow, Susan Brind

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic.

Egyptian literature -- History and criticism.

9780374200107 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Unlocking the pyramid texts

x, 289 p. : ill., plan ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index.

The language of birds. Hieroglyphs as nature ; Egyptian religious philosophy -- The Pyramid Texts. Entranceway ; Antechamber ; Passage to the sarcophagus chamber ; The sarcophagus chamber -- The silver eye : seeking the deeper design. Antechamber ; Passage to the sarcophagus chamber ; The sarcophagus chamber ; Egyptology : settling a dispute.

"There are three distinct groups of Egyptian religious texts: The Pyramid texts, The Coffin texts, and The Book of the dead. The Pyramid texts comprise material engraved in five pyramids, ca. 2625-2475 B.C., and older texts from ca. the 35th-25th cent. B.C., written exclusively for pharaohs. Presenting an original interpretation of an ancient system of poetic, religious, and philosophical thought. Buried in the Egyptian desert some 4,000 years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world's oldest poetry. Yet ever since the discovery of these hieroglyphs in 1881, they have been misconstrued by Western Egyptologists as a garbled collection of primitive myths and incantations, relegating to obscurity their radiant fusion of philosophy, scientific inquiry, and religion. Classicist and linguist Susan Brind Morrow has recast the Pyramid Texts as a coherent work of art, arguing that they should be recognized as a formative event in the evolution of human thought. She explains how to read hieroglyphs, contextualizes their evocative imagery, and interprets the entire poem. The result is a magisterial religious and philosophical text revealing a profound consciousness of the world with astonishing parallels to Judeo-Christian culture, Buddhism, and Tantra. Almost before science, art, and written language, these texts set forth the relationship between time and eternity, life and death, history and ideas."--Provided by publisher.

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