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Writing, Myth and Creativity in Pharaonic Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Marina Scriabine

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The first term in the title of this study might give some surprise. As I hope to prove, however, hieroglyphic writing happens to be the only key enabling us to gain entry to the Egyptian universe. Not only art and mythology, but also the laws, institutions and even daily life itself were “thought hieroglyphically” on the banks of the Nile.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 24 , Issue 93 , March 1976 , pp. 46 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © 1976 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)