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Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät der Universität Würzburg
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Dr. Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney, Stanford/USA The Problem of a Female Rebirth in Ancient Egypt: Why Masculinity is Essential for New Life in the Netherworld Abstract: Creation and rebirth in ancient Egypt is a masculine endeavor, and in mythological and funerary texts,
rebirth is highly sexualized. The female stands as a vessel or protectress during the process of sexual regeneration, but she
is not the source. The mythological cycles of creator gods Atum, Osiris, Re, and Amen are sexualized as rebirths made
possible through their own male sexual agency. Creation and birth is a male prerogative in Ancient Egypt, and sexual
activity is one of the main avenues to that rebirth. Literatur: Ann Macy Roth, "Father Earth, Mother Sky: Ancient Egyptian Beliefs about Conception and Fertility," in: Alison E. Rautman, ed., Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000): 187-201. Anne K. Capel and Glenn E. Markoe, eds., Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven. Women in Ancient Egypt (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1996). Keith Hopkins, A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity (New York: The Free Press, 1999). Gay Robins, Women in Ancient Egypt (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1993). Heather Lee McCarthy, "The Osiris Nefertari: A Case Study of Decorum, Gender, and Regeneration," in The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39 (2002): 173-195. ©2003 Die Seiten wurden erstellt von der Webverantwortlichen Astrid Schilling
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