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Download or read book Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt written by Robert Thomas Rundle Clark and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1978 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study remains the best single introduction to the Egyptian mythological world. The Egyptians lived apart from the rest of the ancient world, and it is this isolation that makes their ideas so difficult to appreciate and interpret. Egyptian though was presented in terms of mythology: myth was used to convey insights into the workings of nature and the ultimately indescribable realities of the soul ...