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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The gods & things in it
Anubis🎨 Hathor🎨 Horus🎨 Isis🎨 Khepri🎨 Maʿat🎨 Nephthys🎨 Osiris🎨 Ptah🎨 Ra🎨 Sekhmet🎨 Set🎨 Thoth🎨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.