 | The Sungod's Journey Through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat Schweizer guides the reader through the Amduat, offering a psychological interpretation of its principal textual and iconographic elements. He draws on Jungian archetypes to identify similar expressions about the afterlife in other world cultures. Andreas Schweizer is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in Zürich, Switzerland. David Lorton, an Egyptologist, is the translator of many books, including The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times , also from Cornell. Erik Hornung is Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Basel and the author of many books, including most recently The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West, also from Cornell. |
