Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, Vol. 1 a story that has captivated

a story that has captivated generations of readers and

With only a basic education as background

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Although best known for his poetry

the plates are perhaps the finest pictorial recreation of the immense clash of cultures and religions underlying the great historical drama of the Crusades

Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, Vol. 1 a story that has captivatedOsiris the king, was slain by his brother Set, dismembered, scattered, then gathered up and reconstituted by his wife Isis and finally placed in the underworld as lord and judge of the dead. He was worshipped in Egypt from archaic, pre dynastic times right through the 4000 year span of classical Egyptian civilization up until the Christian era, and even today folkloristic elements of his worship survive among the Egyptian fellaheen. In this book E. A.