中文摘要：

一个文明有无忏悔意识及其忏悔意识所表现出来的形态对我们准确认识该文明具有极其重要的意义。古埃及人的忏悔意识主要出现在疾病与治疗文献中,忏悔对象为神,带有强烈的＂否定忏悔＂倾向,更多具有耻感文化特征而非罪感文化。古埃及人忏悔意识的扭曲很大程度上导致其历史观念的缺失并与其他因素一同构成导致古埃及文明中绝的致命原因。

英文摘要：

The confession consciousness of a civilization sheds light on a nation＇s cultural type,which is important to understand the civilization.The confession consciousness of ancient Egyptian can mainly be found in documents of diseases and cure,and the confession object is almost always gods.The confession of ancient Egyptian is of strong negative tendency and of one of the shame-culture rather than guilt-culture.The contorting of the confessing consciousness of ancient Egyptian,to some extent,led to the deficiency of historical sense,and together with other elements,formed the fatal cause of the decline of ancient Egyptian civilization.