{"id":1792,"date":"2024-08-26T21:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2024-08-26T21:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:02:51","slug":"the-complete-encyclopedia-of-egyptian-deities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2024\/08\/26\/the-complete-encyclopedia-of-egyptian-deities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Complete Encyclopedia of Egyptian Deities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m way behind on my book reviews but I absolutely had to make sure you knew about this one. I asked to receive a review copy of \u201cThe Complete Encyclopedia of Egyptian Deities\u201d by Dr. Tamara L. Siuda solely because my library was lacking books on the subject. I hadn\u2019t realized that this book was literally going to reinvent the game as for what to expect from books about deities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Complete Encyclopedia of Egyptian Deities\u201d profiles over 100 different gods, goddesses, demigods, and other divine beings. Sure, you get a lot of the \u201cstandard\u201d information you\u2019d expect: personality, symbols, appearance, and associations. Some of the information that you\u2019ll find, that isn\u2019t often found, is the name in hieroglyphs, details on their festivals and places of worship, as well as familial relations. Better still, Siuda highlights not only locations of significance to the deity in the past, but also for today, and how the deities are celebrated in modern times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/egyptian-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1793\" width=\"306\" height=\"383\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With all of this, including extensive illustrations and additional reading recommendations, \u201cThe Complete Encyclopedia of Egyptian Deities\u201d by Dr. Tamara L. Siuda is not only the definitive text on Egyptian deities, but it sets the template of what all other books about deities should aspire to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llewellyn.com\/product.php?ean=9780738770796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/24031\/9780738770796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get your own copy here.<\/a> (This is an affiliate link to my Bookshop, which supports independent bookstores throughout the United States. If you use this link to purchase the book, I will make a small commission at no additional cost to you.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you enjoy The Magical Buffet? Considering supporting The Magical Buffet on Patreon! For only $5 a month you\u2019ll receive monthly tarot\/oracle forecasts, classes, and behind the scenes updates! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/magicalbuffet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/magicalbuffet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Complete Encyclopedia of Egyptian Deities&#8221; is easily the best book on the subject, but does it define the deity encyclopedia genre?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[9,10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}