How to Read the Egyptian Book of the Dead

ISBN-13: 9780393330793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 144 str.

Barry Kemp

Opis

The Book of the Dead, the modern name given to a popular compilation of ancient Egyptian spells, empowered the reader to overcome the dangers lurking in the Otherworld and to become one with the gods that governed. Barry Kemp selects a number of spells to explore who and what the Egyptians feared and the kind of assistance that the book offered them, revealing a relationship between the human individual and the divine quite unlike that found in the major faiths of the modern world.