الأربعاء، 4 أبريل 2012

Religious literature at the Pharaohs

The Egyptians used since the New Kingdom (starting from the 16th century BC). Must provide the funeral of their dead religious texts, written on papyrus or animal skin, a slavery or pieces of linen, the hieroglyphic writings or Alheiratiqy or Aldemoutiqy. The damage on a roll 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 and materials and texts to the Book of the Dead embedded in coffins during the Middle Kingdom and the Pyramid Texts of the king (Unas), a Fifth Dynasty kings at Saqqara. Book of the Dead and this is not the holy religious books, such as the Bible or the Koran or the Torah.

 It is a straight quarters of ideas and fantasies about what is found in the other world is not collected from the separation and the other link the idea or the idea of ​​one, also did not contain tips specific to the dead does not apply to him a recipe book integrated the subject and has no goal or purpose clear. Chief among these chapters is Chapter No. 125, which is where the Dead exiled to perform any disobedience to 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 the gods great, such as: (Osiris, Isis, devout and Amon and Horus).

  It lists all Almasaat manner exile, such as: did not kill, did not steal as well as a Chapter No. 6, who writes especially on the bodies of statues respondents (Alaoshpty) and the asking of each statue to do on the day fixed for him, so that the on behalf of the owner in the work of agriculture in Oozyreris fields (Ayaroo). Chapter No. 30 is a special heart of the deceased and he must testify before the tribunal of the dead Osiris Briash, warning him not to mention, but the good trades, and the silence from the remembrance of sins, so that the fate of the owner of Paradise

Chapter No. 15 is a special God of the sun as it contains the texts of the songs from this god.

Remember, some chapters some risks, which 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 talk about how to live among the gods different in the other world. And contain Book of the Dead Illustrations were permeating the texts of the book from time to time to explain and clarify the texts of the deceased, and took care of Artists drawings and colors of these images. It was to the large size of the text book the books are by the deceased before his death, where each person does not know what will his watch, are required of the scribes to prepare Book of the Dead, which will keep him with him into the grave and then select texts appropriate to it where we find that the books are different from person to person by financial position and capabilities.

In addition to the Book of the Dead there were other books under different names, such as: the (im instruments) in the sense that exists in the other world. As well as the (gated) located 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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