Chap. 1 Introductory
Local Gods—Animism—Fetishism and Totemism—Creation Myths—The ‘Companies’ of the Gods—The Egyptian Idea of God—Deities of the Pyramid Texts—Early Burials—The Pyramid—Pyramidal Architecture—‘Lost’ Pyramids—Mummification—Funeral Offerings—The Ka—The Ba.
Chap. 2 Exploration, History and Customs
The Nile Valley—Racial Origin—Egyptian Exploration—Early Researches—Town Planning—Palaces and Mansions—Life and Law in Ancient Egypt—Commerce—Agriculture—Legal Code—Science—The Peasantry—Costume.
Chap. 3 The Priesthood: Mysteries and Temples
The Priesthood—The College of Thebes—Mysteries—The Greek Mysteries—The Egyptian Temple—The Holy Place.
Chap. 4 The Cult of Osiris
Isis—Isis as the Wind—Manifold Attributes of Isis—Horus—The Dream of Thothmes—Heru-Behudeti—The Myth of the Winged Disk—The Slaughter of the Monsters—Other Horus Legends—The Black Hog—Nephthys—Set—Set and the Ass—Anubis—Thoth—Thoth as Soul-Recorder—Maāt—The Book of the Dead—A ‘Discovery’ 3400 Years Old—The Three Recensions—The Place of Reeds—The Journey of Osiris—The Place of Punishment—The Egyptian Heaven—How the Blessed Lived.
Chap. 5 The Great Gods
The Seven Wise Ones—Bast—The Festival of Bast—Nefer-Tem—I-em-hetep—Khnemu—The Legend of the Nile’s Source—Satet—Anqet—Aten— A Religion of One God— A Social Revolt— Aten’s Attributes—A Hymn to Aten—Hathor—Hathor as Love-Goddess—The Slaying of Men—The Forms of Hathor—Hapi, the God of the Nile—Counterparts of Hapi—Nut—Taurt—Hekt—Khonsu—Minor Deities.