Egyptian Divinities: The All Who Are THE ONE

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Summary: Gadalla Does It Again
Review: A "must" for anyone intriqued by Ancient Egypt -- or anyone not afraid to think out of the box. Gadalla's chiming logic, straightforward language, and demystifying graphics make the ineffable seem obvious. As accessible as it is brilliant. Do your consciousness a favor and read this book.

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Summary: Interesting read, but I need more data.
Review: A "must" for anyone intriqued by Ancient Egypt -- or anyone not afraid to think out of the box. Gadalla's chiming logic, straightforward language, and demystifying graphics make the ineffable seem obvious. As accessible as it is brilliant. Do your consciousness a favor and read this book.

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Summary: Interesting read, but I need more data.
Review: I purchased a number of books by Moustafa Gadalla including this one. While I enjoyed reading them, I don't think that the assertions he makes qualify as proof.
As a scientist, Mr. Gadalla should know that the only absolute in science is data you can measure and results you can verify. Everything else is just theory that fits the data. But just because a theory fits the data does not mean that the theory is truth; it just means we have yet to find any conflicting data. All of the data present here, of course, fully supports Mr. Gadalla's theories.
To me, this book contains some intriguiing theories that appear to fit the historical data, but I would like to hear from a professional Egyptologist who might be able to present conflicting evidence before I make a decision.

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Summary: Recommended reading for students of Egyptology
Review: In Egyptian Divinities: The All Who Are The One, historian and Egyptologist Moustafa Gadalla surveys eight Egyptian gods and goddesses to reveal how they interact to maintain the universe and the human being with the context of an antiquarian Egyptian theology. Westerners will find Gadalla's observations on the Egyptian concepts of monotheism and animal symbolism as fascinating and informative as they are insightful and iconoclastic. Egyptian theology was sophisticated and, in fact, an expression of monotheistic mysticism. A meticulously presented, ground breaking work of impeccable and original scholarship, Egyptian Divinities is enthusiastically recommended reading for students of Egyptology, metaphysics, and the history of monotheistic religion.

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Summary: History Has Never Been Clearer
Review: This is Moustafa Gadalla's eighth book in his continuing struggle to illuminate history from biases of the West and of the Abrahamics. The research in this book leaves little to doubt regarding the validity of guesswork and appropriation by said biased individuals.

Egyptian Divinities continues in Moustafa's clear and concise way of presenting the Ancient Egyptian cosmology, dispelling the chinese whispers trickled from Greek and Western cultures. He explains in great detail some 80 important neterw (wrongly interpreted as gods) and more importantly their function(s) in relationship to each other and to the reader. Moustafa's words reach out to concepts familiar to life relating them to the symbolic view the Ancient Egyptians presented in their cosmology. Many of the neterw described in the book have separate sections markedly defined; "In human terms," that allow the reader to closely associate more with the symbols of this culture rather than chanced abstract terms demoted to purely simple concepts of denegration.

This book is not a fancy of the mind, Moustafa quotes and relates his points directly to Greek, and many other sources not to forget the reader's own common sense. If you have read Moustafa's work before then this book is literally a 'Benben' of his collected work to date. If you are unfamiliar with Moustafa Gadalla's work, this book is a great place to start and work one's way back through his collection.