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Book of dead: This is the Egyptian book of after life. Rituals of dead body as well as fascinating facts about the underworld (other-world) like Hindu Garuda Purana. This is not a deadly text as seen in the Hollywood film "The Mummy". This is the most holy book of Egyptian religion.
"The Book of Dead" is the common name for the ancient
Egyptian funerary text known as "Spells of Coming" (or
"Going") "Forth By Day." The Book of the Dead was a
description of the ancient Egyptian conception of the
afterlife and a collection of hymns, spells, and
instructions to allow the deceased to pass through
obstacles in the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was
most commonly written on a papyrus scroll and placed in
the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased.
The Book of the Dead was the product of a long process
of evolution from the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom
(writings on the crypt walls intending to help the dead
person) to the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom
(similar writings, placed on the outside of a coffin).
Eventually, many of these texts were written on papyrus
and placed in the burial chamber, or inside the coffin
with the mummy. About one-third of the chapters in The
Book of the Dead are derived from the earlier Coffin
Texts. The Book of the Dead itself was adapted to The
Book of Breathings in the Late Period, but remained
popular in its own right until the Roman period. Read it
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