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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going forth by Day, Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-1-4521-4438-2. Lichtheim, Miriam (1975). Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol 1. London, England: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-02899-6. Hornung, E. (1999). The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. Translated by ...
Ancient Egyptian funerary practices are an elaborate set of 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. [2] [3] Angelica vestis, in English and European antiquity ...
Middle Egyptian: An introduction to the language and culture of hieroglyphs. Cambridge University Press. p. 315. ISBN 0521774837. David, Rosalie (2002). Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt. Penguin. p. 93. ISBN 0140262520. David, Rosalie (10 May 2012). Journey through the Afterlife. Elsevier. p. 20. "Mummies: Death and the afterlife in ancient ...
1. For the day of burial. Often accompanied with a lavish vignette showing a funerary procession. [1] A spell for going out into the day. [2] 1B. Recitation for the day of burial. [3] Spell for permitting the noble dead to descend to the Netherworld on the day of the interment. [4] 2. A spell for going out into the day and living after death ...
Ritual adze used for touching the mouth and other areas of the body in the ceremony. Ritual adze: An arm shaped ritual censer used for touching the eyes and mouth to restore the individuals senses. Peseshkef: Believed to mean ‘splitter of his ka-spirit’. These were forked blades made of obsidian, glass, or stone that were created as burial ...
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.
Raymond O. Faulkner, "The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts", ISBN 0-85668-754-5, 3 vols., 1972–78. The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, Erik Hornung, ISBN 0-8014-8515-0; The Egyptian Coffin Texts, edited by Adriaan de Buck and Alan Gardiner and published by the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. Volume 1, Texts of Spells 1-75
Egyptian Letters to the Dead: mainly from the Old and Middle Kingdoms. Egypt Exploration Society. OCLC 7743694; Gardiner, A. (1930). A New Letter to the Dead. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 16(1/2), 19-22. A New Letter to the Dead; Harrington, N. (2013). Living with the Dead: Ancestor Worship and Mortuary Ritual in Ancient Egypt. Oxford ...