Ancient Egypt: Order & Protest
(Pgs. 48-56)
Environment and Geography
Isolation and the Nile River
Unified State v. City-States
Pharaoh
Hieroglyphs
The Afterlife (& Hierarchy)
Mummification
Book of the Dead
Ma’at (& Isfet)
The Role of the State in bringing order and Cosmos
Creation, the original “hillock” Hieroglyph of ma’at
Birth/Rebirth/Order & Cosmos:
Amen-Ra, Thoth, the Sun Boat, and Apep
Immutability
Osiris, Isis, Seth
Rebirth and Life
Stability and Protest:
“Pharaoh” Hatshepsut
Amenhotep III
(Alternatively spelled Amenhophis)
Empire and the New Kingdom
Amenhotep IV (Akhetaton)
Akhenaton and Nefertiti
Aton
The Hymn to Aton (&Psalm 104)
Tutankhamen
(Sigmund Freud: Moses and Monotheism)
Persia & Zoroastrianism
(Pgs. 124-131)
Cyrus the Great
Zoroaster/Zarathustra (Reading Pg. 130)
Polytheism
Fire Gods/ Marduk/Ba’al/The Magi
Ahura-Mazda (“Wise Lord”)
Ahriman (Angra Mainyu) “Fallen” Being
Dualism of good and evil
The Avesta
Asha or “Truth” and Druj or “The Great Lie”
Mithra and the “Six Immortals”
People as the “Collective Savior”
Legacies of Zoroastrianism:
The Book
Human Free Will
Satan
Paradise (or Hell) after Death/Immortal Bodies
Light and Dark/Right and Wrong/The Spirit and the Flesh
(Puritanism)
Judgment Day at the End of (Human) Time/The Apocalypse
Palestine & Judaism
(Pgs. 63-65)
Yahweh
Abraham
Moses, the Sinai Covenant, and the “Chosen People”
(The First Commandment)
King David/Jerusalem
King Solomon
Importance of Jerusalem and the Temple
Shalom
Kingdom of Israel (North/Assyrians/”Ten Lost Tribes of Israel”)/The 1st Diaspora
“Yahweh-only” Movement
Kingdom of Judah (South/Nebuchadnezzar/Chaldean/Destruction of the Temple & the “Babylonian Captivity”)
(Zoroastrianism)/Cyrus the Great of Persia
Return of the Exiles and the Rise of Satan
Antiochus IV/Judas Maccabaeus
Book of Daniel
Apocalypticism, the messiah(s), and the “select”
Significances of Judaism:
Monalatary Monotheism
Judaism as Ethical System/ Social Justice
Hebrew Patriarchy
Perfectibility, End Times, Linear Time (Chaos v. Cosmos)
Reinforces Apocalypticism
