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Traditions/Egyptian Mythology
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Egyptian Mythology

Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead, Osiris, Isis, Ra, underworld judgment, magic, and kingship.

EgyptBronze Age6 readable texts9 indexed sources
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Book of the Dead

Egyptian MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Egyptian Book of the Dead material with Budge's public-domain presentation and Renouf/Naville's chapter-level public-domain translation for spell lookup.

Egyptian· New Kingdom and later recensions

Pyramid Texts

Egyptian MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

The Pyramid Texts are indexed by section and utterance for royal afterlife, resurrection, sky ascent, offerings, protective charms, serpent spells, divine council, Osiris, Horus, Nut, Geb, ka, ba, and ritual speech.

Egyptian· Old Kingdom pyramid inscriptions, primarily Fifth-Sixth Dynasty; indexed from Mercer's public-domain English translation

The Book Am-Tuat

Egyptian MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Budge's public-domain English presentation of the Book Am-Tuat, organized by the twelve night divisions or hours traversed by the sun god through the Tuat.

Egyptian· New Kingdom source tradition; Budge public-domain English volume 1905

The Book of Gates

Egyptian MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Budge's public-domain English presentation of the Book of Gates, organized by the fourteen Book of Gates chapters and the named gates or divisions traversed by the sun god through the Tuat.

Egyptian· New Kingdom source tradition; Budge public-domain English volume 1905

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life

Egyptian MythologyScholarly Reconstruction

Budge's concise survey of Egyptian beliefs about the soul, judgment, resurrection, Osiris, and the life after death.

English study drawing on Egyptian sources· 1899 public-domain English study

Legends of the Gods

Egyptian MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

A public-domain collection of Egyptian mythic narratives, including creation material, divine conflict, and Osiris-Isis-Horus traditions.

Egyptian, represented in English translation· Ancient Egyptian sources represented by a 1912 public-domain English edition
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Book of the Dead

funerary textNew Kingdom and laterEgyptian
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Project Gutenberg public-domain Budge and Renouf/Naville English editions loaded

Budge presentation plus Renouf/Naville 1904 chapter-level translation are indexed for Book of the Dead spell lookup and source-object mapping.

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Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life

afterlife source study19th century public-domain source studyEnglish study drawing on Egyptian sources
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Project Gutenberg public-domain Budge study loaded

Indexed for soul, judgment, resurrection, Osiris, immortality, underworld punishment, and Egyptian afterlife belief.

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Legends of the Gods

mythic source collectionancient Egyptian source traditions represented by a 1912 English editionEgyptian, represented in English translation
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Project Gutenberg public-domain Budge edition loaded

Indexed for Egyptian creation, Ra, Apep, Isis, Osiris, Horus, divine conflict, magical speech, resurrection, and mother-goddess material.

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Book of the Dead: Renouf and Naville edition

funerary text / translation and commentaryNew Kingdom and later source tradition; 1904 public-domain English editionEgyptian
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Project Gutenberg public-domain 1904 English translation loaded as the Renouf/Naville Book of the Dead version

Imported as version renouf-naville-1904 under the main book-of-the-dead text. Commentary notes are source-linked but not bulk displayed in the reader.

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Pyramid Texts

royal funerary utterance corpusOld Kingdom Egyptian pyramidsEgyptian
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public-domain Samuel A. B. Mercer English translation loaded via Internet Sacred Text Archive

Indexed by section and utterance for royal afterlife, resurrection, sky ascent, offerings, protective charms, serpent spells, divine council, Osiris, Horus, Nut, Geb, ka, ba, and ritual speech.

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Coffin Texts

funerary corpusMiddle KingdomEgyptian
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scholarly editions are available, but full English translation display needs source-by-source rights review

Acts as the bridge between royal Pyramid Texts and later Book of the Dead traditions. Source guide can discuss the corpus now; full text waits for display-safe handling.

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Amduat and Book of Gates

underworld booksNew Kingdom royal tomb traditionsEgyptian
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translation and image rights require review; use source-map summaries

Useful for night-journey, solar rebirth, gates, guardians, underworld geography, and comparison with apocalypse/afterlife systems.

Osiris, Isis, and Horus cycle

mythic and funerary receptionOld Kingdom through classical receptionEgyptian, Greek, and later reception
Summary onlySource map only

uses indexed Egyptian funerary texts plus public-domain classical/source summaries

Source-map layer for murdered king, dismemberment, Isis's restoration, Horus's succession, judgment, and resurrection comparisons.

Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose (Brooklyn Museum, obj. 118297)

artifactNew Kingdom, early Dynasty 18Egyptian
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Candidate source image for the book-of-the-dead reader page. Fetched metadata (Brooklyn opencollection 118297): Papyrus, ink, pigment; reportedly from Memphis; ca. 1500-1480 B.C.E.; early Dynasty 18, New Kingdom; 35.6 x 744.2 cm; Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund; one of the oldest and longest known illustrated Books of the Dead. IMAGE NOT ARCHIVED: the fetched page did not expose an image reuse license or a direct image URL, so per evidence rules the photo was not archived. Admin action: confirm Brooklyn Museum's image reuse terms (and capture a direct image URL) before archiving as a source-image sidecar; if cleared, link to text book-of-the-dead with topics afterlife/soul/resurrection.

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Questions this area should answer
  • How do royal ascent, coffin spells, and papyrus spells differ?
  • How does judgment after death work in Egyptian sources?
  • What does Osiris add to resurrection, restoration, and divine-king comparisons?