Book of the Dead
Meanings
name
- An ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, developed from the earlier Coffin Texts.
- Any comparable text from another culture intended to serve as a guide to the experiences one has after death, such as the Tibetan Book of the Dead or Ethiopian Book of the Dead.
Word forms
Etymology
A calque of German Todtenbuch (der Ägypter), used by Karl Richard Lepsius in his publication (1842) describing the text.
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