Download or read book Interpreting ancient egyptian narratives written by and published by EME Editions. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Interpreting Ancient Egyptian Narratives, Martin Pehal applies structural analysis to four New Kingdom narrative compositions. The study explains the strong configurational character of ancient Egyptian (mythological) thought which has the ability to connect various ontological levels of human experience with the surrounding world into complex synchronic structures. These symbolical systems are shown to be mediating between the various cultural paradoxes which were inherent to ancient Egyptian society...