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  2. Book of the Dead - Wikipedia

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    The Book of the Dead was most commonly written in hieroglyphic or hieratic script on a papyrus scroll, and often illustrated with vignettes depicting the deceased and their journey into the afterlife. The finest extant example of the Egyptian in antiquity is the Papyrus of Ani. Ani was an Egyptian scribe.

  3. Book of Life - Wikipedia

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    Book of Life. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Book of Life ( Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaChaim; Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς Biblíon tēs Zōēs; Arabic: Kitab al-Amal) is the book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is destined for Heaven and the world to come. [1] [2 ...

  4. List of Book of the Dead spells - Wikipedia

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    4. Spell for passing on the upper road of Rosetjau. [5] Rosetjau is the "name of the Necropolis of Giza or Memphis, later extended to the Other World in general." [6] 5. Spell for not doing work in the realm of the dead. 6. A shabti spell. First attested as Spell 472 of the Coffin Texts.

  5. Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs - Wikipedia

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    e. Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs were centered around a variety of complex rituals that were influenced by many aspects of Egyptian culture. Religion was a major contributor, since it was an important social practice that bound all Egyptians together. For instance, many of the Egyptian gods played roles in guiding the souls of the dead ...

  6. Books of Breathing - Wikipedia

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    The Books of Breathing ( Arabic: كتاب التنفس Kitāb al-Tanafus) are several ancient Egyptian funerary texts, intended to enable deceased people to continue existing in the afterlife. The earliest known copy dates to circa 350 BC. [1] Other copies come from the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt, as late as the 2nd century AD. [2]

  7. Book of Gates - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Gates ( Arabic: كتاب البوابات, romanized : Kitab al-Bawaabat) is an ancient Egyptian funerary text dating from the New Kingdom. [1] The Book of Gates is long and detailed, consisting of one hundred scenes. [2] It narrates the passage of a newly deceased soul into the next world journeying with of the sun god, Ra, through ...

  8. Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul - Wikipedia

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    Fragment from Egyptian Book of the Dead. The ancient Egyptians believed that a soul (kꜣ and bꜣ; Egypt. pron. ka/ba) was made up of many parts. In addition to these components of the soul, there was the human body (called the ḥꜥ, occasionally a plural ḥꜥw, meaning approximately "sum of bodily parts").

  9. Ancient Egyptian creation myths - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian creation myths are the ancient Egyptian accounts of the creation of the world. The Pyramid Texts, tomb wall decorations, and writings, dating back to the Old Kingdom (c. 2700–2200 BCE) have provided the majority of information regarding ancient Egyptian creation myths. [1] These myths also form the earliest recorded religious ...

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