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... Egyptian Audubon who painted the lower picture was no careless observer : the ornithologist identifies one hoopoe , three shrikes , and a redstart . ( Upper ) Fowling in the Marshes . 1420- 1375 B.C. ( Lower ) Birds in an Acacia Tree ...
... Egyptian Audubon who painted the lower picture was no careless observer : the ornithologist identifies one hoopoe , three shrikes , and a redstart . ( Upper ) Fowling in the Marshes . 1420- 1375 B.C. ( Lower ) Birds in an Acacia Tree ...
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... Egyptian story , translated by Flinders Petrie , reveals the emptiness of a Pharaoh's life , in which every desire ... Egyptian and one Mesopotamian . In each case a member of the privileged classes , with every luxury and sensual ...
... Egyptian story , translated by Flinders Petrie , reveals the emptiness of a Pharaoh's life , in which every desire ... Egyptian and one Mesopotamian . In each case a member of the privileged classes , with every luxury and sensual ...
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... Egypt , 166 ; crises in , 178 Egyptian kingship , 171 Egyptian magistrate , 193 Egyptian Pharaohs , power of , 182 , 184 Egyptian pyramid , cave- like interior of , 120 Egyptian Sakieh , [ 25 ] Egyptian tombs , endow- ments for , 215 ...
... Egypt , 166 ; crises in , 178 Egyptian kingship , 171 Egyptian magistrate , 193 Egyptian Pharaohs , power of , 182 , 184 Egyptian pyramid , cave- like interior of , 120 Egyptian Sakieh , [ 25 ] Egyptian tombs , endow- ments for , 215 ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York