Book Of The Dead by Adam Tarleton

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Book Of The Dead

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

BY ADAM TARLETON

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The Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were painted onto objects, not papyrus.

My mouth has been given to me that I may speak with it in the presence of the Great God

Spell 22

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Spell 22
IS FOR CONCERNED WITH THE OPEN OF THE MOUTH RITUAL,OPENING THE MOUTH TO THE DECEASED TO SPEAK OUT IN THE WEIGHING OF THE HEART JUDGEMENT

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Get back you crocodile of the West, who lives on the Unwearying Stars!

Detestation of you is in my belly, for I have absorbed the power of Osiris, and I am Seth.

Get back, you crocodile of the West! The nau-snake is in my belly, and I have not given myself to you, your flame will not be on me

Spell 32

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Spell 32
Is for the deceased takes on the identity of Ra and drives back eight crocodiles with a spear

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Spell 6
Spell for causing a shabti to do work for a man in the realm of the dead: O shabti, allotted to me, if I be summoned or if I be detailed to do any work which has to be done in the realm of the dead, if indeed any obstacles are implanted for you therewith as a man at his duties, you shall detail yourself for me on every occasion of making arable the fields, of flooding the banks or of conveying sand from east to west; 'Here I am', you shall say.

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Spell 6 is a Shabti spell.

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Adam Tarleton