Books of the Hereafter in Ancient Egypt

Since the beginging of the pharaonic history and exactly since the invention of hierogyphic alphabers with all its variations and developments, the ancient egyptian wanted to transmit every thing regarding his meditations, hopes, fears and creed in the hear after. Observing their own climate and geography egyptian soon believed that man life is like the different cycles arround him, link the sun, the moon, the nile: birth, childhood, maturity, geting old and death. He firmly believed in resurection, like the plants, the insects cycles and many other pheomena in the nature. With the available tools he transmitted us all his imagination about the hereafter and his believe in justic there. He imagined a life like the one he is living with his wife, his children and all his beloved and draw them in his tombs with plenty of food, jewelery, drinks and supplies. With the development of hieroglypics and the availability of resources and space or their shortage and also the development of the religion that suffered many variations, merging and even foreign influence, the description of the hereafter changed through the centuries in many scripts called books.

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Pyramids Texts of Ancient Egypt

Mostly inscribed on walls of tombs inside pyramids, the Pyramid Texts are a collection of Ancient Egyptian religious texts from that go ba

The Book of Gates

The Book of Gates is the principal guidebook to the Netherworld. It first appeared in the tomb of the last king of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

The Book of Caverns

The Book of Caverns appears to have originated in the Ramesside Period (the Twentieth Dynasty). Seemingly, this book, as an underworld boo

The Book of the Heavens and Book o Earth

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The Last Judgment in Ancient Egyptian Religion

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The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant

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The Tale of Sinuhe The Egyptian

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The Tale of The Two Brothers

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The Tale of The Blind Truth of Maat

This myth is one of the most interesting myths in the ancient Egyptian mythology that gives many moral lessons and highlights the value of

Khnum and the Seven Years of Drought

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The Book of Thuth

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The Tale of the Daughter of the Prince of Bekhten

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Tale of Setna

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The Taking of The Joppa

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