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 Bendt Alster, CDL Press, 1990.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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