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02747aam a22003258i 4500 001 54CD2E2AB44411E589926878DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160106010753 008 150428s2015 nyuad b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015010117 020 $a 0374200106 020 $a 9780374200107 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PJ1553 $b .M67 2015 082 00 $a 299/.3182 $2 23 100 1 $a Morrow, Susan Brind. 245 14 $a The dawning moon of the mind : $b unlocking the pyramid texts / $c Susan Brind Morrow. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2015. 300 $a x, 289 pages : $b illustrations, charts ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "A stunning and original interpretation of an ancient system of poetic, religious, and philosophical thought Buried in the Egyptian desert some 4,000 years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world's oldest poetry. Yet ever since the discovery of these hieroglyphs in 1881, they have been misconstrued by Western Egyptologists as a garbled collection of primitive myths and incantations, relegating to obscurity their radiant fusion of philosophy, scientific inquiry, and religion. Now, in a seminal work, the classicist and linguist Susan Brind Morrow has recast the Pyramid Texts as a coherent work of art, arguing that they should be recognized as a formative event in the evolution of human thought. In The Dawning Moon of the Mind she explains how to read hieroglyphs, contextualizes their evocative imagery, and interprets the entire poem. The result is a magisterial religious and philosophical text revealing a profound consciousness of the world with astonishing parallels to Judeo-Christian culture, Buddhism, and Tantra. More than twenty years in the making, The Dawning Moon of the Mind is a monumental achievement that locates one of the origins of poetic thought in Western culture. Almost before science, art, and written language, these texts set forth the relationship between time and eternity, life and death, history and ideas. In The Dawning Moon of the Mind they emerge in their original luminosity and intelligence alongside a persuasive argument for their central importance to the history of language"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "A stunning and original interpretation of an ancient system of poetic, religious, and philosophical thought"-- $c Provided by publisher. 630 00 $a Pyramid texts. 650 0 $a Egyptian literature $x History and criticism. 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006092811.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180116040200.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20160106013513.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=54CD2E2AB44411E589926878DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search