Cults of Ancient Egypt. From the Deified Sun and the Golden Flesh of the King to the Bird Benу and the God Nun

This book opens up the multilayered world of ancient Egyptian religion. Unlike popular retellings of myths, religious narratives here are considered not in isolation, but as reflections of the political, cultural, and philosophical transformations of Egypt over more than three thousand years.
The author shows that Egyptian mythology is not a frozen pantheon or "tales" about gods with animal heads, but a living system evolving along with society, power, and the cosmos. The focus is not only on key figures like Osiris, Isis, Horus, or Ra, but also on the very nature of the divine in Egyptian culture, and even the language through which the Egyptians described the sacred.
The author sequentially analyzes the most important theological centers of Egypt - Heliopolis, Memphis, Thebes, Hermopolis - demonstrating how each of them formed its own version of the creation of the world. Special attention is given to the evolution of religious literature - from the "Pyramid Texts" and "Sarcophagus Texts" to the "Book of the Dead" and the "Book of Amduat" - revealing their role not just as "descriptions of the afterlife," but as active tools for interaction with other realms, part of a living theology.
A significant place is devoted to the analysis of the figure of the pharaoh as a living god, his titles, funerary cult, and connections with solar myths. Through such examples, it becomes evident how closely power, religion, and myth intertwined in Egypt, and how the statehood itself was based on the sacred.