For more than 2,500 years, since the days of Herodotus, students have found the gods of Ancient Egypt a source of fascination and wonder. Strange beings who lived in a world of their own (as opposed to the human gods of the European people), irrational powers and menaces, sometimes animal-like, sometimes superhuman, sometimes incalculable in their evil potentialities, they still have the power to move men's thought. By far the most thorough, most useful coverage of the gods of Ancient Egypt is this book by Dr. Budge of the British Museum, one of the foremost Egyptologists of the century. In it is presented practically everything known about the high gods, the local gods, demigods, demons, and mythological figures of Khem. Dr. Budge provides full information on the origins of the ancient religion; its peculiarly Egyptian aspects; evolution of cults, rites, and gods; the priesthoods; the heretical aberration of Ikhnaten and the Aten cult; the cult of Osiris; the Book of the Dead and its rites; the sacred animals and birds; heaven and hell, and much other secret wisdom that has been discovered hidden in mummy cases or written on tomb walls. The text is profusely illustrated, with many reproductions of tomb and mummy-case paintings, while many full texts are presented, with both hieroglyphs and translation. Volume 1 contains 16 chapters covering Thoth, Osiris, Set, Horus, Isis, Bast, Ra, and many others, plus descriptions of the Creation, the Underworld, and unusual elements of Egyptian mythology. Volume 2 contains 20 chapters covering Amen and Amen-Ra, the Triad of Thebes; Hapi, the God of the Nile; The Triad of Elephantine; Sacred Animals and Birds, miscellaneous gods of the winds, senses, and planets, foreign gods, and much more.