Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead
10 best books like Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Normandi Ellis): Snow Country, Beyond Good and Evil, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume 1, Phaedo, The Headmaster's Wager, Legends of the Egyptian Gods: Hieroglyphic Texts and Translations, The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume 2
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 0679761047 |
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects...
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
| Author | Rick Hanson |
| ISBN | 1572246952 |
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.
With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of...
Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
| Author | John Anthony West |
| ISBN | 0835606910 |
John Anthony West's revolutionary reinterpretation of the civilization of Egypt challenges all that has been accepted as dogma concerning Ancient Egypt. In this pioneering study West documents that: Hieroglyphs carry hermetic messages that convey the subtler realities of the Sacred Science...
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Egyptian Books of the Dead is unquestionably one of the most influential books in all of history. Embodying a ritual to be performed for the dead, with detailed instructions for the behavior of the disembodied spirit in the Land of the Gods, it served as the most important repository of religious...
The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume 1
| Author | E.A. Wallis Budge |
| ISBN | 0486220559 |
Thoth, the ibis-headed god of wisdom, inventor of the art of writing; Osiris, the dead god who arose and set the pattern for death-and-resurrection gods ever since; Isis, the great mother, wandering through the reed swamps; Anubis, conductor of the dead, with jackal head; Bast, the cat goddess; Set,...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0192839535 |
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...
| Author | Vincent Lam |
| ISBN | 0385661452 |
A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man's loyalty to his country, his family and his heritage
Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English academy in 1960s Saigon, and he is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list...
Legends of the Egyptian Gods: Hieroglyphic Texts and Translations
| Author | E.A. Wallis Budge |
| ISBN | 0486280225 |
Former Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was one of the great Egyptologists of the century and author of a host of books on ancient Egypt. For this collection, he carefully selected nine of the most interesting and important Egyptian legends...
The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume 2
| Author | E.A. Wallis Budge |
| ISBN | 0486220567 |
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Egyptian Paganism for Beginners: Bring the Gods & Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Into Daily Life
| Author | Jocelyn Almond |
| ISBN | 0738704385 |
Bring the sacred rites and rituals of ancient Egypt into your Pagan practice today. This beautifully written guide, by noted scholars Jocelyn Almond and Keith Seddon, presents a compelling overview of ancient Egyptian religious and magical beliefs.
Egyptian Paganism for Beginners is...
