EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

The Egyptian Book of the Dead was written between 1100 B.C, and 900 b.c.

It was a collection of funerary hymns, prayers, formulae and magical words.

The Book was written by scribes.

It was a Book for all Egyptians, rich or poor.

It gave guidence on how to travel the road beyond death.

The texts postulate a "Ka", an exact double of the physical body.

From this we know that out-of-body experience was well known in ancient Egypt at this time.

AFTERLIFE, an elaborate set of buriel rituals

BURIAL, elaborate burials

EMBALMING, the embalming process

MUMMIFYING, the embalming process

COFFINS, the style of coffins

FUNERALS, the funeral process

GOD CENTRES, each district had its own gods

TEMPLES, public were almost never allowed inside

ONE CREATION, creation was a gradual process

THE KING, claimed descent from the gods

ANIMALS, were thought sacred

OSIRIS, associated with fertility

HAPI, god of the nile

HORUS, fought in the form of a sun disk

KHEPRI, the rising sun

PTAH, creator god of memphis

SET, god of darkness

THOTH, god of the moon

NUIT, sky goddess

GEB, god of the earth

NEPHTHYS, goddess of death

MAAT, goddess of truth

ISIS, goddess of magic

BES, god of childbirth

HATHOR, egyptian goddess of heaven

HEKAU, sacred words of power

SCARAB, the symbol of khepera

SAHU, the spiritual body

RA, egyptian sungod

BA, the soul represented as a bird

COFFIN TEXT, inscriptions on sides of coffins

BAST, cat headed goddess

BENNU, legendary bird thought to be the reincarnation of osiris.

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, written between 1100 b.c. and 900 b.c.

KA, double of the human body

HORBEHUTET, ancient egyptian winged disk

CATS, the use of cats in ancient egypt