Egyptian

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• Book of the Dead — The great funerary literature of ancient Egypt — spells, hymns, and declarations to guide the dead through the underworld. Good Works Translation from the Papyrus of Ani.
• Introduction to Egyptian Religion — A critical introduction to ancient Egyptian religion — three thousand years of theology that refused to choose between the one and the many, invented the moral afterlife, and produced the oldest religious texts on earth.
• The Book of Two Ways — Nineteen spells from the Book of Two Ways — the oldest known map of the afterlife, inscribed on Middle Kingdom coffins from el-Bersha. The core journey: CT1042–CT1129. Good Works Translation from Egyptian.
• The Book of Two Ways — The Complete Map — The remaining seventy spells of the Book of Two Ways (CT1041-CT1129), completing the oldest map of the afterlife. Gate guardians, offering rites, flame passages, inner portals, the bark's entourage, and the vertebra of Apopis. Good Works Translation from Egyptian.
• The Coffin Texts — Twenty-one spells from the Egyptian Coffin Texts — including the opening of the Book of Two Ways, the theology of Shu, and selected creation and transformation spells. Good Works Translation from Egyptian.
• The Great Hymn to the Aten — The longest and most celebrated hymn to the Aten, the sun disc — composed in the fourteenth century BCE and attributed to the pharaoh Akhenaten. Translated by James Henry Breasted, 1912.
• The Instruction of Amenemhat — A murdered pharaoh speaks from beyond the grave — the ghost of Amenemhat I instructs his son Senusret I on trust, betrayal, and the loneliness of kingship. Translated by A.M. Blackman from Adolf Erman, 1927.
• The Instruction of Amenemope — Thirty chapters of Egyptian wisdom on silence, justice, and the quiet life — composed by Amenemope son of Kanakht for his youngest son, and preserved on a single papyrus scroll now in the British Museum.
• The Instruction of Kagemni — The oldest surviving fragment of wisdom literature in human history — instructions on restraint, courtesy, and good conduct, attributed to the vizier Kagemni of the late Third Dynasty of Egypt. Translated by Battiscombe G. Gunn, 1906.
• The Instruction of Ptahhotep — The oldest surviving book of wisdom literature in human history — thirty-seven maxims on justice, humility, and right conduct, composed by the vizier Ptahhotep in the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Translated by Battiscombe G. Gunn, 1906.
• The Leiden Hymns — Hymns to Amun from Papyrus Leiden I 350 — the theological summit of Egyptian religion, composed during the reign of Ramesses II. Good Works Translation from Egyptian.
• The Pyramid Texts — The oldest religious writings in the world. Utterances from the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara, c. 2375–2345 BCE, translated from Old Egyptian by the New Tianmu Anglican Church.