Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt: An Essay on Egyptian Religion and the Frame of Time Book

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	A Necessary Preface	3
	A First Guide through the Murky Landscape of Egyptian Gods	13
Pt. 1	The Story and the Celestial Dome
1	Beginnings	17
2	A Necessary Foundation	26
3	The Inheritor of the Throne	33
4	A Necessary Foundation: Da Capo	38
5	Allowable Questions?	45
Pt. 2	Egyptian Writings and the Quiet Sun
6	'Mighty is your striking power'	51
7	'Who then is it?'	61
8	The Pyramid Texts c. 2342-2181 BC	69
9	The Eighty Years of the Gods' Contending	74
10	'What then is this?'	79
Pt. 3	The Time of Crisis
11	The Judgement of the Council of the Gods	89
12	A Birthday of Complexities and the Secret of the Will	103
13	The Divine Falcon	111
14	A Second Guide through the Murky Landscape of Egyptian Gods	115
Pt. 4	The Throne of Fire
15	The Death and Rebirth of a Constellation	121
16	Osiris given the 'Silent Land'	129
17	The King of the Wood	139
18	Changes in the World Order and the Hurled Thunderbolt	148
19	'That Day of Uniting the Two Lands'	156
Pt. 5	The Framework of Time
20	The Succession of World Ages	171
21	The Civil Calendar - a Deeply Felt Conviction	176
22	Sidetracked on the Track of Time	186
23	At the Threshold of Myth: Pure Chance or Concealed Numbers?	192
24	The Discovery of a Barleycorn	210
Pt. 6	The Ancient Beginnings
25	Astronomical Gleanings from the Sed Festival, Part I	219
26	The Sed Festival, Part II	229
27	The Site of 'IWNW' in Predynastic Egypt	237
28	'Scene in the mummy chamber'	247
29	A Sense of Control: The Litany of Re, The Book of the Caverns, and The Coffin Texts	250
Pt. 7	The Ancient Mysteries
30	The Broad Hall of the Two Truths	261
31	Ritual Regicide?	275
32	Empty Tombs	293
33	The Dates	299
34	The Consuming Interest in the Celestial Universe	312
35	The Promised Return	327
36	'Rites of Osiris'	332
	Epilogue	336
	Chronology	337
	Reference Notes	342
	Bibliography	364
	Index	369