The Book of the Dead
About this book
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
Subjects
- 11.11 egyptian religion
- ancient
- ancient egypt
- antiquities
- book of the dead
- classic literature
- criticism, interpretation
- cults
- death
- deaths
- dodenboeken
- egypt, antiquities
- egypt, history
- egyptian incantations
- egyptian language
- egyptian literature
- egyptian mythology
- egyptian religion
- facsimile
- facsimiles
- fiction
- funeral rites and ceremonies
- future life
- future life (egyptian religion)
- hieroglyphics
- hieroglyphic text
- hieroglyphic writing
- history
- incantations
- manuscripts
- manuscrits
- middle eastern philology
- mort
- nonfiction
- papyri
- papyrus ani
- papyrus of ani
- philosophy
- reference books
- religion
- religion (discipline)
- religion & spirituality
- rome
- spirituality
- text
- totenbuch