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CONTENTS.
PAGE
Monuments furnishing evidence of a succession of reigns
34
Royal lists and their verification by the monuments
37
Royal list of Abydos
38
Evidence of the reality of sovereigns named
39
Omissions of this list
41
Genealogies
46
Manetho
47
Absolute dates
48
Egyptian monarchy anterior to 3000 B.C.
49
Pre-historic antiquity of human race in Egypt
50
Egyptian ethnology
53
Language
55
Art
61
Moral code
71
Castes
78
Monogamy
79
 

LECTURE III.

The Gods of Egypt.
Identity of the religious institutions from first to last
80
Temples
82
Triads and enneads
83
Local character of Egyptian worship
83
The deities innumerable
85
Mean notions concerning these deities
87
Simplification of the list
87
Is the religion really monotheistic?
89
Evidences as to the meaning of the word Nutar
93
The Power
100
The Powers
103