. A history of art in ancient Egypt . he sarcophagus-chamber I foundupon the thin layer of dust which covered the floor the marks made by the nakedfeet of the workmen who had placed the god in his last resting place 3,200 yearsbefore. (Quoted by RHOXfc; in LEgyptea Petites Journees, p. 239.) The Tomb under the New Emtire. 17 higher types for the national gods, when polytheism came to besuperimposed upon fetishism, the hour arrived for the templeto take its proper place in the national life, for majestic colonnadesand massive pylons to be erected on the banks of the life-givingriver. The temple
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . he sarcophagus-chamber I foundupon the thin layer of dust which covered the floor the marks made by the nakedfeet of the workmen who had placed the god in his last resting place 3,200 yearsbefore. (Quoted by RHOXfc; in LEgyptea Petites Journees, p. 239.) The Tomb under the New Emtire. 17 higher types for the national gods, when polytheism came to besuperimposed upon fetishism, the hour arrived for the templeto take its proper place in the national life, for majestic colonnadesand massive pylons to be erected on the banks of the life-givingriver. The temple was later than the tomb, but it followedclosely upon its footsteps, and the two were, in a fashion, unitedby those erections on the left bank of the Nile, under the Thebannecropolis, which partook of the character of both. The templeis the highest outcome of the native genius during those centurieswhich saw Egypt supreme over all the races of the East, supremepartly by force of arms, but mainly by the superiority of CHAPTER IV. THE SACRED ARCHITECTURE OF EGYPT. § I.— TJie Temple under tJie Ancient Empire. No statue of a god is known which can be confidently referredto the first six dynasties. Hence it has sometimes been assertedthat at that early period the Egyptian gods were not born, if wemay use the expression, that the notions of the people had notyet been condensed into any definite conception upon the writers incline to believe that Egyptian thought had notyet reached the point where the polytheistic idea springs up, thatthey were still content with those fetishes which retained noslight hold upon their imaginations until a much later affirm that the absence of gods is due to the fact thatthe Egyptian people were so near to the first creation of mankindthat they had not yet forgotten those religious truths Avhich wererevealed to the fathers of our race. They believe that Egyptbegan with monotheism, and that its polytheistic s
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