Book of the Dead

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Book of the Dead

• Shant Keusseyan
• 8B

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Thoth (his Greek name derived from the Egyptian
  ?i?auti, written by Egyptians as ??wty) 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.

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• 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,

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• 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.

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• 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.