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Book of the Dead

The Egyptian funerary spell corpus guiding the dead through judgment and the Duat. Not pyramid-texts as Old Kingdom tomb spells alone, and not coffin-texts as Middle Kingdom coffins alone.

Also known as Book of Coming Forth by Day · Egyptian Book of the Dead

Egyptian religion

Book of the Dead appears in Egyptian religion.
The Book of the Dead is itself a New Kingdom funerary spell corpus of Egyptian religion — the named text-tradition sitting inside egyptian-religion, not a museum object dump and not Coffin Texts or Pyramid Texts alone.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Coffin Texts is historically related to Book of the Dead.
The Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts are the immediate antecedent corpus from which New Kingdom Book of the Dead spells reorganize — a named historical lineage under BotD scholarship, not identity merge and not a courtesy reverse BotD→CT this run.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Pyramid Texts is historically related to Book of the Dead.
The Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts stand earlier in the same royal-to-private funerary spell lineage that reaches the Book of the Dead — a named historical relation under BotD scholarship, not identity merge and not a PT→CT twin filed this run.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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