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The Book of the Dead

E A Wallis Budge

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1. Page 1. The Book of the Dead.
2. Page 1. The Title.
3. Page 1. "Book of the Dead" is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerar
4. Page 1. s to every roll of inscribed papyrus which they found with mummies, namely, "Kitâb-al
5. Page 2. The Preservation of the Mummified Body in the Tomb by Thoth.
6. Page 2. The objects found in the graves of the predynastic Egyptians, i.e., vessels of food,
7. Page 2. ing shapes and forms, and their haunts were well known, for they infested the region
8. Page 4. The Book Per-t em hru, or [The Chapters of] Coming forth by (or, into) the Day, commo
9. Page 4. The spells and other texts which were written by Thoth for the benefit of the dead, a
10. Page 4. d that a much abbreviated form of the work was also current at the same period. The r
11. Page 5. [Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 28, No. 923.] The work PER-T EM HRU received many add
12. Page 5. made to illustrate each text by a vignette drawn in black outline. The finest known e
13. Page 8. [Brit. Mus., No. 10257.] XXVIth dynasty, or later. Under the rule of the High Priests
14. Page 8. h was typified by Osiris. The oldest copies of the PER-T EM HRU which we have on papy
15. Page 10. The journey of the Sun-god through the Third Section of the Other World. From the sar
16. Page 13. Roman Period. Ancient Egyptian tradition asserts that the Book PER-T EM HRU was used
17. Page 14. Thoth, the Author of the Book of the Dead. Tehuti (Thoth). Thoth, in Egyptian Tchehut
18. Page 15. Thoth and Osiris.
19. Page 15. The Egyptians were not satisfied with the mere possession of the texts of Thoth, when
20. Page 15. elta, and there she brought forth Horus. In order to avoid the persecution of Set, wh
21. Page 16. Anubis standing by the bier of the dead. When Horus arrived at years of maturity, he
22. Page 18. But before Osiris became King of the Under World he suffered further persecution from
23. Page 18. hands and face and made Osiris mount upon his back as a mark of his victory and super
24. Page 19. Osiris as Judge of the Dead and King of the Under World.
25. Page 19. When Set was destroyed Osiris departed from this world to the kingdom which the gods
26. Page 19. ved life," and when the belief gained ground among them that Osiris, the God of the D
27. Page 20. When the power of Osiris became predominant in the Under World, and his fame as a jus
28. Page 21. Rā the Sun-god. But, as according to the cult of Rā, the wicked, the rebels, and the
29. Page 22. The Judgment of Osiris. The oldest religious texts suggest that the Egyptians always
30. Page 22. "Homage to thee, O Great God, Lord of Maāti,1 I have come to thee, O my Lord, that I
31. Page 23. In the second part of Chapter CXXV Osiris is seen seated at one end of the Hall of Ma
32. Page 24. "O Nekhen, comer forth from Heqāt, I have not turned a deaf ear to the words of the L
33. Page 24. In the third part of the CXXVth Chapter comes the address which the deceased made to
34. Page 25. The deceased then addresses Osiris, and says, "Hail, thou who art exalted upon thy st
35. Page 27. [From the Papyrus of Ani. Brit. Mus., Pap., No. 10470.] In great papyri of the Book o
36. Page 27. d, addressed it, saying, "My heart of my mother! My heart of my mother! My heart of m
37. Page 28. Thus the gods have declared that Ani is "true of voice," as was Osiris, and they have
38. Page 28. page 30In accordance with the command of the gods Ani passes from the Great Balance t
39. Page 30. The Kingdom of Osiris.
40. Page 30. According to the Book of Gates and the other "Guides" to the Egyptian Under World, th
41. Page 30. o be seven cubits in height, and to reap wheat or barley which grew to a height of th
42. Page 31. [From the Papyrus of Ani, Brit. Mus., Pap. No. 10470.] How the beautified passed thei
43. Page 31. and without sin." In these passages we have the two conceptions of Osiris well illust
44. Page 33. A Short Description of the "Doors" or Chapters of the Book of the Dead.
45. Page 33. All the great papyri of the Book of the Dead begin with a HYMN TO RĀ, who from the pe
46. Page 33. e the heavens and the earth. The fiend Nak is overthrown, his arms are cut off. O tho
47. Page 34. "All the beautified dead (Aakhu) in the Tuat receive him in the horizon of Amentt. Th
48. Page 35. "Glory be to thee, O Osiris Un-Nefer, thou great god in Abtu (Abydos), King of Eterni
49. Page 35. "Let me follow thy Majesty as when I was on earth, let my soul be summoned, and let i
50. Page 35. Chapter I was recited by the priest who accompanied the mummy to the tomb and perform
51. Page 36. The holy Ape-gods singing hymns of praise to Rā at sunrise. The Jackal-gods and the H
52. Page 36. The Sun-god Rā, in the form of the "Great Cat," sitting by the side of the Persea Tre
53. Page 36. The most popular prayer is that of Chapter XXXB (see above, p. 4) which, according to
54. Page 38. Chapters XXXI–XLII were written to deliver the deceased from the Great Crocodile Sui,
55. Page 38. The soul visiting the mummified body in the tomb. The bird-goddess at the head is Isi
56. Page 38. (12) the Crocodile. Chapter LXXXIX brought the soul (ba) page 40of the deceased to hi
57. Page 38. of his body by Sebek the Crocodile-god. Chapter CXIV enabled the deceased to absorb t
58. Page 41. Chapters CXLIV and CXLVII deal with the Seven Great Halls (Ārit) of the Kingdom of Os
59. Page 41. re not older than the XVIIIth dynasty, and one is an extract from the text on the Pyr
60. Page 42. Note. The Trustees of the British Museum have published:— 1. Coloured facsimile of th