Perspectives on Lived Religion II: The Making of a Cultural Geography Weiss Lara
Perspectives on Lived Religion II: The Making of a Cultural Geography Weiss Lara Ancient Egyptian elites invested immense cultural and economic efforts in preparing for their afterlives. These…
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Perspectives on Lived Religion II: The Making of a Cultural Geography Weiss Lara
Ancient Egyptian elites invested immense cultural and economic efforts in preparing for their afterlives. These choices included tomb size, tomb location, and architectural design, as well as tomb decoration, and the selection of certain grave gifts. However, the diversity of choices open to them is often overlooked.
Ancient sites were visited by the living to commemorate and rejuvenate human ancestors and the gods, as individual acts or as part of large-scale processions. Their choices depended on financial means, but also on contemporary fashion, among other factors. They also visited cemeteries because of new building activities, or to visit already-ancient monuments.
The daily interactions of the living with their ancestors and gods are traceable in the evidence of lived religious practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the processes which shaped the landscape. Older
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