TY - GEN
T1 - Sacred Space in Ancient Egypt
T2 - Environment & Religion in Ancient & Coptic Egypt: Sensing the Cosmos Through the Eyes of the Divine
AU - Pires, Guilherme Borges
AU - Lopes, Maria Helena Trindade
N1 - UIDB/04666/2020
UIDP/04666/2020
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper intends to respond to a fundamental question: how did the ancient Egyptians sacralize the space in which they inscribed their identity and therefore recognized themselves? Our main topic will be the sacralization of space in the Nilotic civilization, more speci cally the aquatic and terrestrial space(s). We shall regard the concept of Space in a broader sense, in which we refer the aquatic surfaces and the land–based layer and not to a particular space, such as «the house» (pr) or «the temple» (r-pr). Hence, we shall try to comprehend how the Egyptians felt and narrated their sacred space. Thus the spatial reality will be addressed, primarily in its constructive ability of building a people’s identity, mainly focusing on two texts: the Great Hymn to the Nile, and the Tale of Sinuhe, concisely presenting a theoretical framework.
AB - This paper intends to respond to a fundamental question: how did the ancient Egyptians sacralize the space in which they inscribed their identity and therefore recognized themselves? Our main topic will be the sacralization of space in the Nilotic civilization, more speci cally the aquatic and terrestrial space(s). We shall regard the concept of Space in a broader sense, in which we refer the aquatic surfaces and the land–based layer and not to a particular space, such as «the house» (pr) or «the temple» (r-pr). Hence, we shall try to comprehend how the Egyptians felt and narrated their sacred space. Thus the spatial reality will be addressed, primarily in its constructive ability of building a people’s identity, mainly focusing on two texts: the Great Hymn to the Nile, and the Tale of Sinuhe, concisely presenting a theoretical framework.
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Archaeopress Egyptology
SP - 443
EP - 452
BT - Environment and Religion in Ancient and Coptic Egypt
A2 - Maravelia, Alicia
A2 - Guilhou, Nadine
PB - Archaeopress
CY - Oxford
Y2 - 1 February 2017 through 3 February 2017
ER -