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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...