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Note 1435 — Chapter VII · INCARNATE HUMAN GODS

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C. P. Tiele, History of the Egyptian Religion, pp. 103 sq. On the worship of the kings see also E. Meyer, Geschichte des Altertums,² i. 2. § 219, pp. 142 sq.; A. Erman, Ägypten und ägyptisches Leben im Altertum, pp. 91 sqq.; id., Die ägyptische Religion (Berlin, 1905), pp. 39 sq.; V. von Strauss und Carnen, Die altägyptischen Götter und Göttersagen, pp. 467 sqq.; A. Wiedemann, Die Religion der alten Ägypter, pp. 92 sq.; id., “Menschenvergötterung im alten Ägypten,” Am Urquelle, N.F. i. (1897), pp. 289 sqq.; id., Herodots zweites Buch, pp. 274 sq.; G. Maspero, Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient classique: les origines, pp. 258–267; E. Naville, La Religion des anciens Égyptiens (Paris, 1906), pp. 225 sqq. Diodorus Siculus observed (i. 90) that “the Egyptians seem to worship and honour their kings as very gods.”

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