William Matthew Flinders Petrie – the father of Egyptian Archaeology – developed and applied statistical analysis to pottery from prehistoric sites and by this established seriation as a relative dating method as a major contribution to Egyptian Archaeology. In this scientific paper he describes special varieties of the conception of the supernatural in ancient Egypt. The source text also includes a list of "principal works on Egyptian religion" and a list of works "on religions ancient and modern".

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• Chapter I: The Nature of Gods
• Chapter II: The nature of man
• Chapter III: The future life
• Chapter IV: Animal worship
• Chapter V: The groups of gods. Animal-headed gods
• Chapter VI: The human gods
• Chapter VII: The cosmic gods
• Chapter VIII: The abstract gods
• Chapter IX: The foreign gods
• Chapter X: The cosmogony
• Chapter XI: The ritual and priesthood
• Chapter XII: The sacred books
• Chapter XIII: Private worship
• Chapter XIV: Egyptian ethics
• Chapter XV: The influence of Egypt