 Herodotus found it, a religion of innumerable external observances and mechanical usages, carried out with such elaborate and insistent punctiliousness that the Egyptians gained the reputation of being the most religious of all peoples. But such observances...  The Healing Gods of Ancient Civilizations - Side 7af Walter Addison Jayne - 1925 - 569 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Henry Breasted - 1912 - 412 sider
...the old, the religion of Egypt sank deeper and deeper in decay, to become, what Herodotus found it, a religion of innumerable external observances and...the reputation of being the most religious of all peoples. But such observances were no longer the expression of a growing and developing inner life,... | |
 | Irwin St. John Tucker - 1920 - 412 sider
...mechanical traditions carried out with such elaborate and insistent fidelity, such "proud punctilio," that the Egyptians gained the reputation of being the most religious of all peoples, when they were merely going through the motions of a dead exercise. The totems of the past... | |
 | Walter Addison Jayne - 1925 - 634 sider
...Budge, Egyptian Magic, p. 116 ; also Baillet, IdSes morales dans I'tgypte antique, pp. 72-75. 8 Miiller, Mythology, Egyptian, pp. 15, 214. myths of the many...the reputation of being the most religious of all peoples."7 The earliest glimpses of the life of the people, the evidences of the Pyramid Age, show... | |
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