Unità archivistica Uphill MSS 4.26 - A Traditional or Heretical History of Ancient Egypt until the end of the First Dynasty

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The estate of Eric Uphill.

Donated by the executors of the estate of Eric Uphill in 2022.

"An Heretical History of Egypt Commencing with the Egyptians' Concept of the Beginning of Time or Eternity Past and Future Followed by the Creation of the Universe and Continuing Down until the End of the First Dynasty c.3100 BC"*
91 pages (74 single-sided + 17 double-sided)
Incomplete typewritten and handwritten drafts with annotations and drawings, with some additional notes, the early history of ancient Egypt based on historical records with cross reference material relating to other world cultures, a publication plan, drafts for some sections, and notes for others.
Uphill's section headings:

• Astronomical periods
  1. The cosmic year
  2. The galactic year
  3. The great or processional year
• Egyptian duration texts
• Creation
  • Fuller phases of creation and Egyptian cosmogeny
• Egyptian cycles of years
• A possible explanation of Herodotus's account of Egyptian solar cycles
• The Biblical day and year cycle of Yahwe
• Duration of the gods
• Similarities of Egyptian and Indian Universes
• Ḏt r Nḥḥ eternity to eternity
• Rest periods in the life of the universe(s)
• Ancient Egyptian "moments of time" really great year cycles
• The great distances travelled by Re and the time they take to accomplish
• Minimum figures for the travel distances of Re
• Maximum figures for the travel distances of Re
• The king's great span of distances and time
• The concept of Horus and Thoth as Ptah's mind and speech
• The classical writers references to datings in Egyptian prehistory
• The gods Re and Brahma age and their lives end
• Further Indian religious parallels with Egypt
• The voyages of Re in his solar bark and their time cycles
• The counting of later periods of time: Sothic cycles as a means of counting backwards
• A parallel system of counting in Sumerian chronology
• Sothis "opener of the year"
• Egyptian calendars
• The festival [hieroglyphs] Ḏt or of eternity
• The cycle termed the "era of Horakhti"
• Spell 175 Ani
• Passages from the Book of Gates
• Sepi
• The great cosmic serpent
• The idea behind the cosmic serpent image
• How the Egyptians may measure light speed using Iteru length units
• Duration of the sun god's voyages in the heavens
• Length of the Sothic cycle
• Scheme adopted for cycles
• Relationship with the year discrepancy
• Sothic cycle evidence
• Note on Herodotus sun movement
• Miscalculated reading of precessional year count
• Farina scheme for Turin Papyrus prehistory
• Hebrew tradition of generations
• Chronological scheme
• Identifications of gods with development phases
  a. Cosmic and pre-settlement deity identifications
  b. Terrestrial and post-settlement deity identifications
• Nebulae
• Sumerian creation cycle
• Hebrew creation periods and generations span
• Indian world chronology
  • Indian world ages
  • Brahma time periods
  • Maru duration
  • Brahma duration
• Jain chronology
• Buddhist chronology
• Dating based on Nile sedimentation relevant to Turin Papyrus
• The Maya chronological cycles and calendar system
• First Dynasty label annals
• Building shown on Dynasty 1 labels
• Palermo Stone annals
• First Dynasty annals
• Related material, moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted loose notes, 2 handwritten pages, brief notes on the cult of Ra, the creation myth, and sun worship

*Uphill's description for this group.

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