Saturday, 22 January 2011

Religious literature at the Pharaohs

The Egyptians used since the era of the modern state (from 16 century BC). must provide their dead with funerary religious texts, written on papyrus or animal skin, a slavery or pieces of linen, the writings of the hieroglyphic script or Alheiratiqy or Aldemoutiqy. The damage to the coil and placed with the deceased in his coffin, which contain his body or in their own boxes of wood and sometimes the reservation between the wrappings, which damage the Almmia

It contains the texts of Book of the Dead consists of 140 chapters include topics different from the other world and the origins of the materials and texts to the Book of the Dead Matteawan coffins during the Middle Kingdom and the Pyramid Texts of the king (Unas), one of the kings of the Fifth Dynasty at Saqqara. The Book of the Dead This is not a religious holy books, like the Bible or the Koran or the Torah

It is a consecutive quarters of ideas and fantasies about what is in the other world and brings the separation and the other link the idea or the idea of one, also did not include tips specific to the dead does not apply to him recipe book integrated the issue and not a goal or purpose is clear. Among the most important of these chapters is Chapter No. 125, which is based in which the deceased exile him to perform any sin of the gods, whether murder or theft or fraud or guilt in front of representatives of justice in the 42 provinces of Egypt, after mentioning the name of each representative of justice, and sometimes in front of gods big, such as: (Osiris, Isis, devout, and Amon and Horus)

 It lists all Almasyat manner exile, such as: did not kill, I did not steal There is also Chapter 6, and who writes especially on the bodies of statues of respondents (Alaocpty), requests from each statue to do on the day it was scheduled, in order that on behalf of the owner in the work of agriculture in Oozyreris fields (Iyaroo). Chapter No. 30 is special to the heart of the deceased and must be attested by the Court of the dead Osiris Priasp, warning him not to mention the Trades, but good, and the silence from the remembrance of sins, so that the fate of the owner of Paradise

Chapter 15 is particularly the sun god as it contains the texts and songs on this god

Remember, some chapters are some risks that in effect, the deceased in his journey to the underworld and how to survive them. Some of the chapters particularly to prevent the functioning of the deceased on the head, and another for the prevention of loss (Ka) of the deceased, and another tells how the life of gods, different in the other world. Which contains the Book of the Dead illustrations were permeate the texts of the book from time to time to explain and clarify the text of the deceased, and took care of Artists drawings and colors of these images. It was to the large size of the text book books were prepared by the deceased before his death, where each person does not know what will be his watch, are required of the scribes write a book of the dead, which will maintain him within the tomb, and then selects the appropriate texts to him where we find that the books vary from one person to another by its position and its financial

 In addition to the Book of the Dead there were other books under different names, such as: the (im tools) in the sense of what is in the other world. As well as the (gates) in the other world and lead to different hours of the night. But it was the most famous is the Book of the Dead



   
 

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