Egyptian Divinities: The All Who Are the One

by Moustafa Gadalla

This new expanded edition shows how the Egyptian concept of God is based on recognizing the multiple attributes of the Divine. The book details more than 100 divinities (gods/goddesses); how they act... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931446040
• ISBN13: 9781931446044
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Gazelle Book Services, Ltd.
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Introduction Into the MONOTHEISM of ALL of Ancient Egypt

Western Egyptologists are usually disguising the ancient Egyptian religion as polytheist in order to make Judaism-Christianity appear to be an innovation, unrelated to (Black) Africa. Moustafa Gadalla makes it clear that all neteru (so-called goddesses and gods; the Western "nature" having been derived from that term) were considered to be facets of the very same and only God. In a way, the ancient Egyptian religion is even more monotheist than Western concepts. Even rather pantheist (everything being part of that one God). The book provides the real Egyptian names of these neteru, next to their Greek-Western corruptions. Beware though, that the former are only approximations, as no vowels were used in the old Egyptian language and about every Egypt/Africacentered book provides other variations. The book provides the information of how these neteru are to be projected metaphorically onto us humans. Also, one or the other expression of every day Western life gets revealed with its ancient Egyptian origin. For example, why we "have guts" or a spine or why cats have nine lives. Intriguing, how much of ancient Egypt is still influencing the global age. This is an introduction into the Egyptian divinities only. Some of the chosen 80 neteru are covered for a few pages, others are only hastily described, some merely mentioned. I have given 5 stars for this 2001 booklet of some 100 text pages, in contrast to 4 and 3 stars for other ones by Moustafa Gadalla, Egyptian Romany: The Essence of Hispania and Exiled Egyptians: The Heart of Africa, though the latter two reveal more, which is much less revealed by others already and written in a more fascinating manner. However, I do not have to make any necessary subtractions for "Egyptian Divinities" and the latter seems perfect for that what it is.

Gadalla Does It Again

A "must" for anyone intriqued by Ancient Egypt -- or anyone not afraid to think out of the box. Gadalla's chiming logic, straightforward language, and demystifying graphics make the ineffable seem obvious. As accessible as it is brilliant. Do your consciousness a favor and read this book.

Recommended reading for students of Egyptology

In Egyptian Divinities: The All Who Are The One, historian and Egyptologist Moustafa Gadalla surveys eight Egyptian gods and goddesses to reveal how they interact to maintain the universe and the human being with the context of an antiquarian Egyptian theology. Westerners will find Gadalla's observations on the Egyptian concepts of monotheism and animal symbolism as fascinating and informative as they are insightful and iconoclastic. Egyptian theology was sophisticated and, in fact, an expression of monotheistic mysticism. A meticulously presented, ground breaking work of impeccable and original scholarship, Egyptian Divinities is enthusiastically recommended reading for students of Egyptology, metaphysics, and the history of monotheistic religion.

History Has Never Been Clearer

This is Moustafa Gadalla's eighth book in his continuing struggle to illuminate history from biases of the West and of the Abrahamics. The research in this book leaves little to doubt regarding the validity of guesswork and appropriation by said biased individuals.Egyptian Divinities continues in Moustafa's clear and concise way of presenting the Ancient Egyptian cosmology, dispelling the chinese whispers trickled from Greek and Western cultures. He explains in great detail some 80 important neterw (wrongly interpreted as gods) and more importantly their function(s) in relationship to each other and to the reader. Moustafa's words reach out to concepts familiar to life relating them to the symbolic view the Ancient Egyptians presented in their cosmology. Many of the neterw described in the book have separate sections markedly defined; "In human terms," that allow the reader to closely associate more with the symbols of this culture rather than chanced abstract terms demoted to purely simple concepts of denegration.This book is not a fancy of the mind, Moustafa quotes and relates his points directly to Greek, and many other sources not to forget the reader's own common sense. If you have read Moustafa's work before then this book is literally a 'Benben' of his collected work to date. If you are unfamiliar with Moustafa Gadalla's work, this book is a great place to start and work one's way back through his collection.