Books Related to Jaynes's Bicameral Mind Theory

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Ancient Civilizations

Books in this section are related to Book I, Chapter 6, "The Origin of Civilization," Book II, Chapter 1, "Gods, Graves, and Idols," Book II, Chapter 2, "Literate Bicameral Theocracies," and Book II, Chapter 4, "A Change of Mind in Mesopotamia," The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World's Earliest Proverb Collections Alster, Bendt. 1990. CDL Press.

Environment and Archaelogy: An Introduction to Pleistocene Geography Butzer, Karl W. 1964. Chicago: Aldine Press. Cited by Jaynes on pgs. 131, 138, 144.

New Light on the Most Ancient East Childe, V. Gordon. 1954. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Cited by Jaynes on pg. 138.

Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature Frankfor, Henri. 1978. University of Chicago Press. Cited by Jaynes.

Catalogue of the Egyptian Hieroglyphic Printing Type Gardiner, Alan H. 1977. Cited by Jaynes on pg. 191.

The Ancient Near East: A History Hallo, William W. and Simpson, William K. 1971. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Cited by Jaynes on pg. 186.

Remembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems Hare, Tom. 1999. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Conquest of the Incas Hemming, John and Jordan, K.C. 1973. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers. Cited by Jaynes on pg. 160.

Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi King, L.W. 1900. London: Luzac. Cited by Jaynes on pg. 248.

Egyptian Religion Morenz, Siegfried. 1992. Cornell University Press. Relevant chapters on "divine commandments" and the opening of the mouth ritual in ancient Egypt.

Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization Oppenheim, A. Leo. 1977. University of Chicago Press. Contains relevant sections on topics such as "the care and feeding of the gods," "Mesopotamian psychology," and divination.

State Letters of Assyria Pfeiffer, Robert H. 1935. New Haven: American Oriental Society.

The Greatness That Was Babylon: A Survey of the Ancient Civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley Saggs, H.W.F. 1991. St. Martins Press. Cited by Jaynes on pgs. 166, 178, 184, 195, 209, 214, 230, 233, 238, 251.

Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice Shafer, Byron E. (Ed.). 1991. Cornell University Press. General information on Egyptian religion.

Maya History and Religion (Civilization of the American Indian) Thompson, J. Eric S. 1990. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Cited by Jaynes on pgs. 156, 173.

Discovering the Royal Tombs at Ur Woolley, Sir Charles Leonard. 1969. Cited by Jaynes on pg. 161, 164, 196.

Buildings of the Third Dynasty Woolley, Sir Charles Leonard. 1974.