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  2. Book of the Dead - Wikipedia

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    The Book of the Dead is the name given to an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC. [1] ". Book" is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts [2] consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey ...

  3. List of Book of the Dead spells - Wikipedia

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    I am noble, I am a spirit [akh], I am equipped; O all you gods and all you spirits [akhu], prepare a path for me. — Book of the Dead, spell 9.[7] 10. Another spell for a man's going out into the day against his foes in the realm of the dead. [9] 11. Spell for going out against a foe in the realm of the dead.

  4. Opening of the mouth ceremony - Wikipedia

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    Opening of the mouth ceremony. Priests of Anubis, the guide of the dead and the god of tombs and embalming, perform the opening of the mouth ritual. Extract from the Papyrus of Hunefer, a 19th-Dynasty Book of the Dead (c.1300 BCE) The opening of the mouth ceremony (or ritual) was an ancient Egyptian ritual described in funerary texts such as ...

  5. Papyrus of Ani - Wikipedia

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    1888,0515.1.3. The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript in the form of a scroll with cursive hieroglyphs and colour illustrations that was created c. 1250 BCE, during the Nineteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Egyptians compiled an individualized book for certain people upon their death, called the Book of Going Forth by Day ...

  6. 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").

  7. Ancient Egyptian funerary practices - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Egyptians had an elaborate set of funerary practices that they believed were necessary to ensure their immortality after death. These rituals included mummifying the body, casting magic spells, and burials with specific grave goods thought to be needed in the afterlife. [1][2] The ancient burial process evolved over time as old ...

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