
Mythology
Egyptian Myths, Goddesses, Gods, and Stories
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Narrated by:
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John Griffith
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By:
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Ron Carver
Become familiar with the myths and their background. Become swallowed up by the sandy Egyptian empire of old. In this book, you’ll learn about things like:
- The golden lotus
- The Greek princess
- The stories around the Sphinx
- Gods like Osiris, Isis, and Horus, and their role in mythology
- What women did in ancient Egyptian culture
- How Egyptians handled medicinal needs
- Mummification and its deeper meaning and rituals
- The importance of Shabti dolls in religious worship
- What Heka did and why
- The role of Cleopatra VII, the famous Egyptian ruler
- What happened to Queen Hatshepsut
And much more. Learn more now by adding this guide to your library.
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Egyptians
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Each chapter stands alone with the information it provides. Yes, a chapter focusing on Isis will have more details about her than other chapters, but another chapter focused on Horus will still go into some background about Isis when mentioning her.
This makes this book excellent as a reference because one can read a single chapter topic and know the basic information they need for context. It's also good for people who are forgetful or who read a chapter or two, then put the book away for days or weeks at a time. However, the repetition may be annoying to readers who expect the book to be more narrative and less reference-oriented.
The other thing to know is that the narration isn't what one is used to. The narrator has a great speaking voice and does a fine job of narration...except for the self-corrections and clicking his tongue, often when making a mistake. I don't know if this is the narrator's first book and he didn't understand listener expectations or if he has a tic and this is the cleaned up version after hundreds of retakes. Or perhaps it's some other situation, but a few times each hour there is a self-correction and/or tongue click. For example, the narrator might say, "When Pharaoh...click...When the pharaohs..."
If a person is intolerant of such things, this book isn't for them. While I wish the narration wasn't as it is, I don't know the circumstances and will reserve judgment on the man and hos narration, with simply a warning to those who, understandably, expect a perfectly narrated book.
The information contained within the book is excellent, easy to understand, and interesting. Even with the imperfect narration, I'm happy to have listened to it. I think with the search feature in Kindle, that version might be an excellent addition to this for those truly wishing to use this as a reference book.
Excellent as a Reference Book
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The content itself is so rich. The errors, re-reading, re-pronunciations, stammering, tongue clicks are all clear to hear and the utter absence of ANY editing WHATSOEVER causes SERIOUS discredit to the otherwise wonderful material.
Another critical error is the glaringly obvious mispronunciation of Egyptian and Persian names of people and gods. There are standard pronunciations in academia and the narrator gets more wrong than correct. This wonderful book deserves to be read well, and not dragged through the mud with such an abysmal reading.
I would literally volunteer to read it myself and record it and edit it so that it would be free of errors, I care about the academic quality of the subject matter so much.
Wonderful Substance. Appaling Narration. No Edits.
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5 stars
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Too Long for Too Little Information
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Too much repetition
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Interesting stories, terrible narration
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This reads like a series of disjointed lectures on ancient Egyptian history and culture from early dynasties up early historical times. Large quantities of information are frequently repeated more or less verbatim in multiple chapters, which are organized in no discernible order. Mythology is referred to only in passing as it might bear on the history and culture.
I will probably finish because it is a mildly interesting series of lectures on a culture and history I don’t know much about, delivered as if by an interested TA reading lecture notes.
Disappointed. False advertising.
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