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The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Hardcover)
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Hardcover)
Series: Chinese Bound
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Ancient Egyptians imagined the afterlife as a kind of journey you
had to make to get to paradise - but it was quite a hazardous
journey so you would need help along the way. So spells and magic
formulas written on papyrus were placed in coffins and burial
chambers and believed to protect and aid the deceased in duat, or
the underworld. These funerary texts were developed over many
centuries into individualized collections known as the Book of the
Dead. One of the best-known versions, the 'Papyrus of Ani', is
featured here. Some 192 spells are known, although no single
manuscript contains them all. The spells are designed to give the
dead mystical knowledge in the afterlife, offer incantations to
help preserve different parts of the deceased, and protect the dead
from hostile forces. Some of the spells are to make sure you can
control your own body after death. The ancient Egyptians believed
that a person was made up of different elements: body, spirit,
name, heart, all embodiments of a person, and they were afraid that
these elements would disperse when you died. Presented in a
high-quality Chinese-bound format with accompanying illustrations,
Egyptian Book of the Dead is an ideal resource of esoteric wisdom
for anyone interested in Ancient Egyptian notions of death and the
path to the afterlife.
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