Book Of The Heavenly Cow
Butler: The Book of the Celestial Cow 75 myth’s referents. A theological myth, or a myth qua theological, concerns primarily the Gods, a physical myth (myth qua physical) treats of nature in a universal sense, a psychical myth of the soul, a material myth of certain concrete substances, and a mixed myth of entities in all these classes. Download this stock image: N/A. English: A scene from the Book of the Heavenly Cow as depicted in the tomb of Seti I, East Valley of the Kings location KV17. It depicts the sky goddess Nut in her bovine form, being held up by her father Shu, the god of the air. Aiding Shu are the eight gods of the Ogdoad. Across the belly of Nut (representing the visible sky) sails the sun god in his day. The Book of the Heavenly Cow CHAPTER ONE Divisions 1-30 This composition, modernly entitled The Book of the Heavenly Cow, is included because it contains possibly the oldest extended mythical narrative from ancient Egypt and because the text also provides information regarding the practical use to which the myth was put.
The Book of the Heavenly Cow, or the Book of the Cow of Heaven, is an Ancient Egyptian text thought to have originated during the Amarna Period and, in part, describes the reasons for the imperfect state of the world in terms of humankind's rebellion against the supreme sun god, Ra. Divine punishment was inflicted through the goddess Hathor, with the survivors suffering through separation from Ra, who now resided in the sky on the back of Nut, the heavenly cow.
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With this 'fall', suffering and death came into the world, along with a fracture in the original unity of creation.[1] The supreme god now changes into many heavenly bodies, creates the 'Fields of Paradise' for the blessed dead, perhaps appoints Geb as his heir, hands over the rule of humankind to Osiris (Thoth ruling the night sky as his deputy), with Shu and the Heh gods now supporting the sky goddess Nut.[2]
The Book Of The Heavenly Cow
Though the text is recorded in the New Kingdom period, it is written in Middle Egyptian and may have been written during the Middle Kingdom period.[3]