#e.a. wallis budge

[jennyislander]

Should I tell somebody about this and if so, who?

I looked around the website of trendy dollar store chain Five Below, and clicked on their Bestselling Books category. Lo and behold, there was The Egyptian Book of the Dead. It appears to be part of a set of print-on-demand books that they will ship.

The inside looks like this. It's (edit: a cut-down version of) E.A. Wallis Budge's translation of The [Egyptian] Book of the Dead, which is available for free at Project Gutenberg et al. and in print (edit: in full and in larger format) from Dover Books.

The cover looks like this. It's official art or fan art from Stargate, either the original movie or SG-1.

Besides being profoundly, hilariously ironic if you know about Budge and/or Stargate, isn't this, like, a copyright violation? Or something?

[parafrazerofhistory]

Isis, Mother of All

"'Isis was the great and beneficent goddess and mother, whose influence and love pervaded all heaven and earth and the abode of the dead, and she was the personification of the great feminine, creative power which conceived, and brought forth every living creature and thing, from the gods in heaven to man on the earth, and to the insect on the ground; what she brought forth she protected, and cared for, and fed, and nourished, and she employed her life in using her power graciously and successfully, not only in creating new beings but in restoring those that were dead. She was, besides these things, the highest type of a faithful and loving wife and mother, and it was in this capacity that the Egyptians honoured and worshipped her most.'" [1]

—J. G. Frazer, quoting E.A. Wallis Budge in Adonis, Attis, Osiris, part 2 (The Golden Bough, vol. VI, 1914, pp. 115-116)

[1] E. A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, ii. 203 sq.

Isis, the Veiled Goddess of Life, sculpted by August Puttemans (c. 1922). The French inscription is a translation from Plutarch; in English it reads: "I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered." [*]

(Source: Ammodramus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

[*] Plutarch (trans. F. C. Babbitt, 1936), Moralia, i. 9, Isis & Osiris, p. 25.

[philippequeau]

Les Noms du Dieu Un, en Égypte et chez les Hébreux.

Les Noms du Dieu Un, en Égypte et chez les Hébreux.

“Pauti” Commençons par un très bref rappel de quelques éléments de théologie hébraïque: -Dieu est “un”.i -Dieu est celui qui “est”, ou plus exactement, Dieu est celui qui “est et devient” (“Je serai qui je serai”).ii -Dieu est “caché”.iii Ceci étant posé, c’est un fait troublant que l’on trouve exactement ces mêmes attributs et expressions à propos de Dieu dans des textes égyptiens parmi les…

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[pathofregeneration]

Wake up, Horus! Thy protection is established. Make thou happy the heart of thy mother Isis.  The words of Horus shall bind up hearts, he shall cause to be at peace him who is in affliction. Let your hearts be happy, O ye who dwell in the heavens.

From the Metternich Stela, transl. by E.A. Wallis Budge

[perkwunos]

E.A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics

[perkwunos]

E.A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics

[pathofregeneration]

In truth I have come unto thee, I have brought Maati (Truth) to thee. I have done away sin for thee. I have not committed sins against men . . . I am pure. I am pure. I am pure.

The Book of the Dead, transl. E.A. Wallis Budge

[pathofregeneration]

The boat of the silent one sails along with fair winds.

Teaching of Amen-em-apt