The Coffin Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian funerary spells written on coffins beginning in the First Intermediate Period. They are partially...
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their tombs and coffins with religious spells and texts hoping to help the dead in the afterlife. As Egyptian culture developed, these texts also evolved...
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The oldest of the texts have been dated to c. 2400–2300 BCE. Unlike the later Coffin Texts and Book of the Dead, the Pyramid Texts were reserved only...
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Book of the Dead (category Funerary texts in ancient Egyptian)
the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased, was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which...
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Duat (category Articles containing Ancient Egyptian-language text)
Duat derives principally from funerary texts such as the Book of Gates, the Book of Caverns, the Coffin Texts, the Amduat, and the Book of the Dead. Each...
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written on coffins beginning in the First Intermediate Period. Nearly half of the spells in the Coffin Texts derive from those in the Pyramid Texts. Book of...
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Ammit (category Articles containing German-language text)
'devourer of the dead and hearts' in Old Kingdom pyramid texts and Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts. Throughout the First Intermediate Period and the Middle...
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Pakhet (section Coffin text incantation)
Speos Batn el-Bakarah. The Faulkner translation of Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, Spell 470 reads, O You of the dawn who wake and sleep, O You who are...
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Heka (god) (category Articles containing Ancient Egyptian-language text)
his own right, and a cult devoted to him developed. By the time of the Coffin Texts, Heka is said to have been created at the beginning of time by the creator...
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children of the god Atum, the god Geb, or the goddess Nut. A passage in the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom (c. 2055–1650 BC) says they are the offspring...
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