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u/inshushinak · 4 pointsr/ancientegypt

As someone who routinely uses both Egyptian and Java, I can say categorically -- I like Egyptian a lot better. :)

If you're just writing games, you don't necessarily need the most current research -- anything in the last few decades is fine for your purposes. Unfortunately, there's a tremendous amount of material being printed still that goes back to the 19th century in Dover reprints that needs to be avoided at all costs. Also, remember that you're talking about almost three millennia of religious belief -- the differences between Old Kingdom and Roman period are far far greater than the differences between Upper and Lower Egypt.

In any event, here's a modern translation of the Book of the Dead (not Budge!):

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Egyptian-Book-Raymond-Faulkner/dp/0760773092/

The BotD isn't the greatest intro to the theogeny you may be looking for, but it's well known.

These are both current, but I don't know them:

http://www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Mythology-Goddesses-Traditions-Ancient/dp/0195170245

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Gods-Goddesses-Ancient-Egypt/dp/0500051208

Avoid anything not written by an actual academic in the field -- there's way too much 'Egyptology' that's actually modern spirituality misusing ancient texts, and as noted, lots of reprints of Budge and Petrie that are now way out of date.

Last thoughts: If you're looking for thematic ideas for a game, there may be some good mythology childrens books that will hit the points and iconography you want (but will lack some of the more anatomically correct aspects of Egyptian divinity), and if you can, go through a real book store rather than Amazon :) If you're near Boston, Schoenhof's may have some of these.

u/Sihathor · 3 pointsr/bad_religion

Definitely his scholarly articles. As for his translations, I'm not sure. I should try comparing a couple spells sometime. I can't do it now because I am away from home, where I have the Dover reprint of Budge, and maybe two copies of Faulkner. (One is a black hardcover from Barnes and Noble, the other is the giant one that also contains a reproducton of the Papyrus of Ani.

One nice thing about Budge is that, at least in the Dover reprint, there's a section with the hieroglyphs line-by-line, with a word-by-word translation, and his weird transliteration under that. I'm not sure how accurate Budge's hieroglyphic transcriptions were, but I wish Faulkner had transcriptions.

I also wish the Faulkner translation came in more portable sizes like Budge does.

Years ago, I saw a post in an egyptology forum somewhere that one should take one's Budge books, and put them in the closet for four years. During which time, one should learn and study as much as they can about Egyptology, getting themselves thoroughly grounded. Then, after that time, take the Budge books out of the closet. With that knowledge, the person should be able to notice where Budge goes wrong, where a newbie wouldn't.

I'm not sure how accurate that advice is, but it makes some sense to me, because I've experienced noticing where somebody goes wrong in some field of knowledge that I have learned about, that I wouldn't have noticed before.

Another issue with Budge, and probably the old-timey sources more generally, is a bias towards Christianity, trying to see Egyptian religion as some sort of proto-Christianity, rather than looking at Egyptian religion on its own terms.

Here is another Kemetic's take on it. I've been meaning to post this in a self-post on this subreddit as a "Not Bad Religion" post. Not sure if I should.