The Egyptian Book of the Dead

From The Book of the Dead

The Egyptian book of the dead is a collection of mortuary texts by ancient Egyptian. It established up of imports or magic formulas, placed in tombs and considered to protect and aid the deceased in the hereafter. Probably compiled and reedited during the 16th century bce, the collection took Coffin Texts dating from  2000 BCE, Pyramid Texts dating from 2400 BCE, and other writings.

Afterward digests taken hymns to Re, the sun god. Umpteen authors, compiling programs, and sources gave to the work. Scribes replicated the texts on rolls of papyrus, often colorfully exemplified, and sold them to individuals for burial use. Many copies of the book have been observed in Egyptian tombs, but none comprises all of the more or less 200 known chapters. The collection, literally gentle [The Chapters of Coming-Forth-by-Day], found its present name from Karl Richard Lepsius, the German Egyptologist who published the first collection of the texts in 1842 year.

The Books of the Dead from the Saite period tend to organize the Chapters into four divisions:

- The broken enters the tomb, settles to the underworld, and the body recovers its powers of movement and speech.

- Explanation of the mythic beginning of the gods and targets, the broken are made to live again so that they may develop, reborn, with the morning sun.

- The deceased travels across the sky in the sun ark as one of the sacred dead. In the evening, the broken travels to the underworld to look before Osiris.

- Having been vindicated, the deceased takes power in the universe as one of the gods. This section also takes several chapters on careful amulets, supply of food, and serious points.