Synopses & Reviews
Complete hieroglyphic renderings of two ancient "books of the underworld" which provided the dead with a guide their souls would need to make the journey from the world of the living to the "abode of the blessed." Ancient texts shed considerable light on the development of material and spiritual elements in Egyptian religion and on numerous primitive gods.
Synopsis
Complete hieroglyphic renderings of two ancient "books of the underworld" which provided the dead with a guide their souls would need to make the journey to the "abode of the blessed."
Table of Contents
THE BOOK .AM-TUAT:
THE TITLE OF THE WORK
I. THE FIRST DIVISION, OR WESTERN VESTIBULE, OF THE TUAT, CALLED NET-RA. With 8 Illustrations
II. THE SECOND DIVISION OF THE TUAT, CALLED URNES. With 11 Illustrations.
III. THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE TUAT, CALLED NF.T NEB-UA-KHEPER-AUT. With 13 Illustrations
IV. THE FOURTH DIVISION OF THE TUAT, CALLED .ANKHET-KHEPERU. With 7 Illustrations.
V. THE FIFTH DIVISION OF THE TUAT, CALLED AMENT.
With 8 Illustrations.
VI. THE SIXTH DIVISION OF THE TUAT, CALLED
METCHE'!-'-MU-NEBT-'fUAT. With 19 Illustrations
VII. THE SEVENTH DIVISION OF THE TUAT, CALLED THEPI;IET-SHETA. With 18 Illustrations
VIII. THE EIGHTH DIVISION OF THE TUAT, CALLED TEBAT-NETERU-S. With 17 Illustrations.
IX. THE NINTH DIVISION OF THE TUAT, CALLED BEST ARU-ANKHET-KHEPERU. With 18 IllustrationR. X. THE TENTH DIVISION OF THE TUAT, CALTJED METETQA-UTCHEBU. With 22 Illustrations
XI. THE ELEVENTH DIVISION OF THE TUAT, CALLED RE-EN-QERERT-APT-KHATU. With 26 Illustrations
XII. THE TWELFTH DIVISION, OR EASTERN VESTIBULE, OF THE TUAT, CALLED KHEPER-KEKIU-KHAUMESTU. With 13 Illustrations