Ancient Egyptian religion in the mystery of the three: Egypt and Babylon by D. S. Merezhkovsky

Created as a part of a large project ‘Images of Egyptian history and culture in the Russian literature of 19-20th centurie's, this paper presents structural semiotic analysis of D. S. Merezhkovsky's fundamental book ‘The mystery of the three: Egypt and Babylon' (Prague, 1925). It is shown how in the time of collapse of religiosity in Russia the novelist attempts to collate several of the most powerful religious systems of antiquity. On base of a word list by frequency, the book is analyzed in terms of its lexicon, semantic fields, main subjects, images and motifs. Sub-division of the novel and major compositional features of the text are also discussed.