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My Heart My Mother looks at many different aspects of Egyptian religion from the role of Hathor-Sekhmet, the serpent eye goddess, in the cult of Osiris, to the reliefs in the temple at Abydos, and more general discussions of temple life, ancestor ritual, death, rebirth and regeneration. An original piece of work on female divinities and their role in the passage of the pharaohs from death to rebirth that takes us beyond the New Kingdom period and into the Greco-Roman world.Roberts, Alison is the author of 'My Heart My Mother: Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt', published 2000 under ISBN 9780952423317 and ISBN 0952423316.
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