The Egyptian Heaven and Hell: Volume III (Books on Egypt and Chaldaea, 22)

255 Pages·1906·4.289 MB·English

by  E. A. Wallis Budge

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The Egyptian Heaven and Hell:
Volume III
This is the third of three volumes, first published in 1906, which treat
the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. The first volume contains the
complete hieroglyphic text of the Book Åm-Tuat, with translations
and reproductions of all the illustrations; the second, the hieroglyphic
text of the short form of the Åm-Tuat and the Book of Gates. This
volume explores the origin of the Books of the Other World, high-
lighting and comparing the most remarkable features, with prefatory
remarks and a full index to the whole work.
The object of all the Books of the Other World was to provide the
dead with a ‘guide’ or ‘handbook,’ containing a description of the
regions through which their souls would have to pass on their way to
the Kingdom of Osiris, and which would supply them with the words
of power and magical names necessary for an unimpeded journey from
this world to the next.
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The Egyptian Heaven
and Hell
Volume III
E. A. Wallis Budge
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THE
EGYPTIAN HEAVEN AND HELL
BY
E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., Litt.D., D.Litt., D.Lit.
KEEPER OF THE EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES
IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
VOL. III.
THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOKS OF
THE OTHER WORLD DESCRIBED
AND COMPARED
CHICAGO
THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO.
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO. Ltd.
1906
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PREFACE
The present work is the outcome of two lectures on
the Books of the Tuat, i.e., the Egyptian Underworld,
or “ Other World,” which I had the honour to deliver
at the Royal Institution in the spring of 1904, and it
has been prepared at the suggestion of many who
wished to continue their inquiries into the beliefs of
the Egyptians concerning the abode of the departed,
and the state of the blessed and the damned.
The object of all the Books of the Other World was
to provide the dead with a “ Guide ” or “ Handbook,”
which contained a description of the regions through
which their souls would have to pass on their way to
the kingdom of Osiris, or to that portion of the sky
where the sun rose, and which would supply them with
the words of power and magical names necessary for
making an unimpeded journey from this world to the
abode of the blessed. For a period of two thousand
years in the history of Egypt, the Books of the Other
World consisted of texts only, but about B.C. 2500