Religion and magic of ancient Egypt

The English orientalist and archaeologist Ernest Alfred Wallis Baj (1857-1934) worked forty years in the British Museum and thirty of them served as the guardian of the Assembly of Egyptian antiquities - the largest outside Egypt. A man of an adventurous warehouse, he traveled in Egypt and by hook or by crook replenished the museum’s collection, and reported the results of his research and associated guesses in fascinating books equally addressed to the scientific community and the general public. In this publication, two of his works are presented: "Egyptian religion" and "Egyptian magic". Badju was lucky enough to work with valuable papyruses, and above all, he relies on them in his conclusions about the parallel existence in the ancient Egypt of faith in a single God and a complex system of cults and beliefs, with which magical rituals were inextricably linked. In Egyptology, there is no consensus regarding his judgments, but they invariably arouse interest and do not leave anyone indifferent