The Egyptian Book of the Dead
← all texts · Egyptian · c. 1550 BCE onward (New Kingdom)
What this is
Not one book but a collection of funerary spells — the "Book of Coming Forth by Day" — written on papyrus and buried with the dead to guide them safely through the underworld, past its gates and monsters, to the weighing of the heart before Osiris. Budge's translation is the famous one.
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Companion reading path
What to read alongside it, and why.
The Pyramid Texts
Egyptian
Its oldest ancestor — the same journey, first written for kings alone.
The Corpus Hermeticum
Gnostic & Hermetic
Later Greco-Egyptian theology that reframes this cosmology philosophically through Thoth/Hermes.
The Greek Magical Papyri (PGM)
Egyptian
The same Egyptian deities reappear, now invoked in Greek ritual magic.