Book of the Dead
Shant Keusseyan
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• 'The Book of the Dead' is the
common name for the ancient
Egyptian funerary text known
as 'The Book of Coming '[or
'Going']' Forth By Day'.
• The name "Book of the Dead"
was the invention of the
German Egyptologist Karl
Richard Lepsius, who published
a selection of the texts in 1842.
• When it was first discovered,
the book of the dead was
thought to be an ancient
Egyptian Bible.
• Anubis- Anubis is the Greek
name for a jackal-headed god
associated with mummification
and the afterlife in Egyptian
mythology.
• Egyptian priests wear the mask
of Anubis during the time when
someone gets mummified for
example, when a pharaoh gets
mummified a priest would have
the mask of Anubis and say
prayers for the dead body.
• a priest would have the mask of
Anubis and say prayers for the
dead body.
• Ra is the ancient Egyptian
sun god.
• He is a major deity in
ancient Egyptian religion
by the fifth dynasty.
• He commanded sky, earth,
underworld. He was
associated with the falcon.
• Thoth (his Greek name derived
from the Egyptian *ḏiḥautī,
written by Egyptians as ḏḥwty)
was considered one of the most
important deities of the
Egyptian pantheon, often
depicted with the head of an
Ibis.
• His chief shrine was at
Khemennu, where he led the
local pantheon, later renamed
Hermopolis by the Greeks (in
reference to him through the
Greeks' interpretation that he
was the same as Hermes) and
Eshmûnên in Coptic.
• Horus refers primarily to two
separate deities of the Ancient
Egyptian Religion: Horus the
Elder (Heru-ur) and Horus the
Younger (Heru-pa-khart), but
also to a number of minor
deities.
• The Horuses appear in their
earliest forms in late
Predynastic Egypt.
• his name is believed to mean
"the high,
• Isis is a goddess in Ancient
Egyptian mythology and is
celebrated as the ideal mother
and wife, patron of nature and
magic; friend of slaves, sinners,
artisans, the downtrodden , as
well as listening to the prayers
of the wealthy, the maiden, the
aristocrat and emperor.
• the goddess of the Overarching
Sky, and was born on the fourth
intercalary day.
• Osiris (Greek language, also
Usiris; the Egyptian language
name is variously transliterated
Asar, Aser, Ausar, Ausir,
Wesir, or Ausare) is the
Egyptian god of life, death, and
fertility.
• Osiris is one of the oldest gods
for whom records have been
found and first appears in the
Pyramid Texts around 2400 BC,
when his cult is already well
established.