Researcher Jeremy Naydler offers a radical reinterpretation of Egypt’s Pyramid Texts. He argues that they primarily describe the pharaoh’s out-of-body shamanic experiences during life on behalf of his people, rather than serving only as funerary texts. On this reading, pyramids also functioned as ritual spaces for these living journeys, although they were also built as royal tombs. The Heb-Sed royal jubilee was traditionally celebrated every 30 years, sometimes after 40.
Naydler reads Pyramid Texts as pharaoh’s shamanic journey in life
Key facts
- The relevant corpus is the Pyramid Texts, inscribed in pyramids, not the Coffin Texts, which were inscribed on coffins.
- Jeremy Naydler argues that the Pyramid Texts primarily describe the pharaoh’s shamanic, out-of-body experiences during life on behalf of his people, rather than functioning exclusively as funerary texts.
- Under Naydler’s interpretation, pyramids also served as ritual spaces for these living journeys, although they were also built as royal tombs.
- The Heb-Sed royal jubilee was traditionally celebrated every 30 years, sometimes after 40 years.
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Jeremy Naydlerinnertraditions.com
It is the shamanic spiritual tradition, argues Naydler, that is the undercurrent of the Pyramid Texts and holds the key to ancient Egyptian mysticism. Buy Now.
Temple of the Cosmos: The Ancient Egyptian Experience ...goodreads.com
In this guide to the cosmology of ancient Egypt, Jeremy Naydler recreates the experience of living in another time and place.
Plato, Shamanism and Ancient Egypt, by Jeremy Naydlerthehumandivine.org
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Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts by Jeremy Naydler ...everand.com
Jeremy Naydler's radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts--the earliest body of religious literature to have survived from ancient Egypt--places these ...
List of books by author Jeremy Naydlerthriftbooks.com
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Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Textsinnertraditions.com
It is the shamanic spiritual tradition, argues Naydler, that is the undercurrent of the Pyramid Texts and holds the key to ancient Egyptian mysticism.
reflections, mainly methodological, on jeremy naydler ...academia.edu
Naydler's work aims to redefine Pyramid Texts as primarily mystical rather than exclusively funerary. Disagreement exists over the necessity of religious ...
Jeremy Naydler | Official Publisher Pagesimonandschuster.com
He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy and author of Temple of the Cosmos, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts, The Future of the Ancient World, and Goethe on ...
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