First Published in 1998. This volume brings together for the first time in a single volume the highly significant works on ancient Egyptian religion by Aylward Manley Blackman (1883-1956). A select bibliography provides an update and key to more recent work on topics discussed by Blackman.

Part 1 Generalities: purification; righteousness; salvation; sin; myth and ritual in Ancient Egypt. Part 2 The cult of the dead: the significance of incense and libations in funerary and temple ritual; libations to the dead in Modern Nubia and Ancient Egypt; the Ka-house and the Serdab; some notes on the Ancient Egyptian practice of washing the dead; the rite of opening the mouth in Ancient Egypt and Babylonia. Part 3 The temple cult: priests and priesthood; on the position of women in the Ancient Egyptian hierarchy; worship; sacramental ideas and usages in Ancient Egypt; the house of the morning; the sequence of the episodes in the Egyptian daily temple liturgy; a study of the liturgy celebrated in the temple of the Aton at El-Amarna; the myth of Horus at Edfu II; the consecration of an Egyptian temple according to the use of Edfu; the significance of the ceremony "Hwt Bhsw" in the temple of Horus at Edfu. Part 4 The King: the Pharaoh's placenta and the moon-god Khons; the king of Egypt's grace before meat. Part 5 Communication between gods and men: oracles in Ancient Egypt I - papyrus B.M. 10335; oracles in Ancient Egypt II - B.M.; Ostraka and papyrus 10417.