The Book of the Dead
by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, David Lorimer, Foy Scalf, and Paul Mirecki
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The Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins and sarcophagi and rolls of papyri. This book is the treatise and analysis of The Book of the Dead, (also known as Spells of Coming and Forth by Day), by Egyptologist E. A. Wallis Budge
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Cults, Religion, Book of the dead, History, Nonfiction, Classic Literature, Fiction, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Death, Egyptian Incantations, Papyrus of Ani, Egyptian language, Future life, Papyri, Hieroglyphics, Egyptian Mythology, Papyrus Ani, Dodenboeken, Facsimiles, Incantations, Totenbuch, Text, Antiquities, Criticism, interpretation, Egyptian religion, 11.11 Egyptian religion, Egyptian literature, Hieroglyphic Writing, Egypt, antiquities, Facsimile, Egypt, history, Ancient Egypt, Hieroglyphic Text, Manuscripts, Mort, Manuscrits, Deaths, Religion (discipline), Ancient, Rome, Middle eastern philology, Reference books, SpiritualityPlaces
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"The Recensions of the great body of religious compositions, which were drawn up for the use of dead kings, nobles, priests, and others, and which form the Book of the Dead of the Ancient Egyptians may be thus summarized :-I. The Heliopolitan Recension, i.e., that which was edited by the priests of the College of Anu (the On of the Bible, and the Heliopolis of the Greeks), and which was based upon a series of texts now lost."
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