How To Read The Egyptian Book Of The Dead

How To Read The Egyptian Book Of The Dead
Author :
Publisher : Granta Books
Total Pages : 92
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781847087515
ISBN-13 : 1847087515
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Book Synopsis How To Read The Egyptian Book Of The Dead by : Barry Kemp

Download or read book How To Read The Egyptian Book Of The Dead written by Barry Kemp and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid, powerful and inescapable that controlling one's destiny within it was a constant preoccupation. In life, supernatural forces manifested themselves through misfortune and illness,and after death were faced for eternity in the Otherworld, along with the divine gods who controlled the universe. The Book of the Dead empowered the reader to overcome the dangers lurking in the Otherworld and to become one with the gods who governed. Barry Kemp selects a number of spells to explore who and what the Egyptians feared and the kind of assistance that the Book offered them, revealing a relationship between the human individual and the divine quite unlike that found in the major faiths of the modern world.


How To Read The Egyptian Book Of The Dead Related Books

How To Read The Egyptian Book Of The Dead
Language: en
Pages: 92
Authors: Barry Kemp
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-06 - Publisher: Granta Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid, powerful and inescapable that controlling one's destiny within it was a constant preoccupation. I
Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: E. A. Wallis Budge
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-28 - Publisher: Wellfleet Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A collection of ancient Egyptian magic spells and road maps to assist individuals through the underworld and into the afterlife.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Eva Von Dassow
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-02 - Publisher: Chronicle Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Reissue of the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani, the most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discovered, restored in it
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Muata Ashby
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Sema Institute

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Includes a new translation of the original texts which uncovers a mystical teaching underlying the sayings and rituals instituted by the Ancient Egyptian Sages
Journey Through the Afterlife
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: John H. Taylor
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords