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Egyptian Book of the Dead
Various · Egyptian · c. 1550 BCE
Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge (1895)
41 chapters
Spells and instructions for navigating the afterlife — the most important funerary text of ancient Egypt.
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Contents
- 1PREFACE.
- 2INTRODUCTION.
- 3THE LEGEND OF OSIRIS.
- 4THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
- 5THE EGYPTIANS' IDEAS OF GOD.
- 6THE LEGEND OF RA AND ISIS.
- 7THE ABODE OF THE BLESSED.
- 8THE GODS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD.
- 9THE PRINCIPAL GEOGRAPHICAL AND MYTHOLOGICAL PLACES IN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD.
- 10FUNERAL CEREMONIES.
- 11THE PAPYRUS OF ANI.
- 12THE BOOK OF THE DEAD.
- 13PLATE II.
- 14PLATE III.
- 15PLATE IV.
- 16PLATES V. AND VI.
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