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15 Aspects of deities are particularly explicit in the collections of epithets found in hymns and litanies such as the New Kingdom Litany of Re, which lists 72 different names and roles of the sungod, 16 or texts such as the Ptolemaic Book of Hours, 17 which focuses on the many roles of Osiris.ĥ In line with their multifaceted nature, myths played a role in many areas of Egyptian culture and are attested in diverse media and genres that include:įully composed, written mythical narratives such stories may also have been recited and performed in lost oral settings
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An introduction to narrative structures, (.)ġ In a group of essays such as this, which seeks to answer the question of what an Egyptian myth “is”, one may perhaps start by saying a few words on terminology and establishing parameters, with a view to defining a framework for the wide range of the other contributions.
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