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Ay, with a leopard skin, performing the opening of the mouth for Tutankhamun.Wall painting from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV 62), 18th Dynasty (c. 1325 BCE). The ancient Egyptians held the belief that to reach the afterlife, one must pass through a series of arduous trials in the duat, which involve evading perilous creatures and traps.
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] "
Shezmu (alternatively Schesmu and Shesmu) is an ancient Egyptian deity with a contradictory character. He was worshiped from the early Old Kingdom period. [2]He was considered a god of ointments, perfume, and wine.
Many Egyptians considered the tomb to be a home for the dead, so it was customary to leave offerings near the body of the deceased. [20] Egyptians believed that even after death, one's spirit would live on because the life force was a separate entity that could detach itself from the body.
The Egyptian jackal was listed as a subspecies of the golden jackal but molecular and osteological data has established that it is a unique species in its own right. It is native to Egypt, Libya , and Ethiopia , though its post- Pleistocene range once encompassed the Palestine region .
The Duat (Ancient Egyptian: dwꜣt, Egyptological pronunciation "do-aht"), also called Amenthes (Ancient Greek: Ἀμένθης, romanized: Aménthēs) or Te (Coptic: Ⲧⲏ, romanized: Tē), is the underworld in ancient Egyptian mythology. It has been represented in hieroglyphs as a star-in-circle: 𓇽.
The Egyptian Book of the dead : the Book of going forth by day : being the Papyrus of Ani (royal scribe of the divine offerings), written and illustrated circa 1250 B.C.E., by scribes and artists unknown, including the balance of chapters of the books of the dead known as the theban recension, compiled from ancient texts, dating back to the ...
The Mysteries of Osiris, also known as Osirism, [1] were religious festivities celebrated in ancient Egypt to commemorate the murder and regeneration of Osiris.The course of the ceremonies is attested by various written sources, but the most important document is the Ritual of the Mysteries of Osiris in the Month of Khoiak, a compilation of Middle Kingdom texts engraved during the Ptolemaic ...