Author: Velde, H. (Herman) te. (Wolfgang Helck, Editor).
Title: Seth, God of Confusion: A Study of His Role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion. (Probleme der Ägyptologie, 6). [AND:] The Egyptian God Seth as Trickster. Paper Read at the XXVII International Congress of Orientalists, 1967.
Description: Leiden, Brill, 1967. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Royal octavo. Pp. xiii, 168. Plus 12 plates bound at end. With 16 text illustrations. Original stiff wrappers, small publisher's stamp at blank corner of cover. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION thus. Renowned Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Herman te Velde work was first published as a doctoral dissertation, presented to the University of Groningen, June 1st, 1967, with doctoral advisor Prof. Dr. Th. P. van Barren. Shortly thereafter the book became a classic on the subject and was reprinted in Probleme der Ägyptologie, VI. The book was reprinted again by Brill in 1977. Interesting publisher's material regarding the book is loosely inserted. [AND:] H. te Velde: "The Egyptian God Seth as Trickster. Paper Read at the XXVII International Congress of Orientalists, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1967." (The Author, Groningen, Egyptologisch Instituut, 1967). Pp. 6. Laser print copy of the original manuscript. With the Author's corrections and additions in pen. In this paper Seth appears disorderly and uncivilised, a murderer, a homosexual and a slayer-of-the-monster, characteristics in common with that complex phenomenon of the Trickster. In the same year, Te Velde published his doctoral dissertation "Seth, God of Confusion: A Study of His Role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion" which became a classic and a standard work on the subject. Te Velde's paper was published a year later in JARCE (AEB 68617). 008-7 .

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