The Egyptian Heaven and Hell: Volume III (Books on Egypt and Chaldaea, 22)

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This is the third of three volumes, first published in 1906, which treat the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. The first volume contains the complete hieroglyphic text of the Book Åm-?uat, with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations; the second, the hieroglyphic text of the short form of the Åm-Tuat and the Book of Gates. This volume explores the origin of the Books of the Other World, highlighting and comparing the most remarkable features, with prefatory remarks and a full index to the whole work. The object of all the Books of the Other World was to provide the dead with a ‘guide’ or ‘handbook,’ containing a description of the regions through which their souls would have to pass on their way to the Kingdom of Osiris, and which would supply them with the words of power and magical names necessary for an unimpeded journey from this world to the next. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF ILLUSTRATED GUIDES TO THE OTHER WORLD CHAPTER II. THE EARLIEST EGYPTIAN CONCEPTION OF THE OTHER WORLD CHAPTER III. THE REUNION OF THE BEATIFIED AND THEIR RECOGNITION OF EACH OTHER IN THE OTHER WORLD APPENDIX:— THE CHAPTER OF THE GATHERING TOGETHER OF A MAN’S ANCESTORS TO HIM IN NETER-KHER CHAPTER IV. THE BOOK ÅM-TUAT AND THE BOOK OF GATES CHAPTER V. THE BOOK ÅM-TUAT AND THE BOOK OF GATES COMPARED—THE WESTERN VESTIBULE OF THE TUAT CHAPTER VI. SECOND DIVISION OF THE TUAT CHAPTER VII. THIRD DIVISION OF THE TUAT CHAPTER VIII. FOURTH AND FIFTH DIVISIONS OF THE TUAT. FROM THE BOOK ÅM-TUAT CHAPTER IX. FOURTH AND FIFTH DIVISIONS OF THE TUAT. FROM THE BOOK OF GATES CHAPTER X. SIXTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH, AND NINTH DIVISIONS OF THE TUAT. FROM THE BOOK ÅM-TUAT CHAPTER XI. SIXTH, SEVENTH, AND EIGHTH DIVISIONS OF THE TUAT. FROM THE BOOK OF GATES CHAPTER XII. TENTH AND ELEVENTH DIVISIONS OF THE TUAT. FROM THE BOOK ÅM-TUAT CHAPTER XIII. NINTH, TENTH, AND ELEVENTH DIVISIONS OF THE TUAT. FROM THE BOOK OF GATES CHAPTER XIV. THE EASTERN VESTIBULE OF THE TUAT INDEX