Book of the Dead: An English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, Etc., of the Theban Recension, with Introductions, Notes Etc. Vol. I

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This book was once originally printed in 1901. It has a preface, introduction, footnotes, sources, and drawn images from papyrus scrolls and tomb hieroglyphics. It has more than a few hymns, spells, and prayers, in addition to explanations of the basic tenets of ancient Egyptian religion.

“The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom to around 50 BCE. The original Egyptian name for the text is ‘Book of Coming Forth by Day,’ or ‘Book of Emerging Forth into the Light.’ These texts consist of Various magic spells intended to assist a dead person’s journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife and written by many priests over a period of about 1000 years.

“The Book of the Dead was once a part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which have been painted onto objects, not papyrus. One of the crucial spells included were drawn from these older works and date to the 3rd millennium BCE. Other spells were composed later in Egyptian history, dating to the 11th to 7th centuries BCE. Various the spells which made up the Book continued to be inscribed on tomb walls and sarcophagi, as had at all times been the spells from which they originated. The Book of the Dead was once placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased.”

Translation and remark by E.A. Wallis Budge, an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published a lot of works on the ancient Near East.

This is volume one of a three set, and covers chapters I. to LXIV.

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