page_title: Religious text
section_title: Bronze Age
hierarchical_section_title: Religious text / Sacred texts of various religions / Bronze Age
caption_attribution_description: English: Pyramid Texts from Pyramid of Teti I in Saqqara
context_page_description: Religious texts are texts related to a religious tradition. They differ from literary texts by being a compilation or discussion of beliefs, mythologies, ritual practices, commandments or laws, ethical conduct, spiritual aspirations, and for creating or fostering a religious community. The relative authority of religious texts develops over time and is derived from the ratification, enforcement, and its use across generations. Some religious texts are accepted or categorized as canonical, some non-canonical, and others extracanonical, semi-canonical, deutero-canonical, pre-canonical or post-canonical.
  A scripture is a subset of religious texts considered to be "especially authoritative", revered and "holy writ", "sacred, canonical", or of "supreme authority, special status" to a religious community.
context_section_description: Ancient Egyptian religion
  Pyramid Texts
  Coffin Texts
  Book of the Dead
  Book of Caverns
  Book of Gates
  Amduat
  Book of the Heavenly Cow
  Litany of Re
  Atenism: Great Hymn to the Aten
  Sumer
  Hymn to Enlil
  Kesh Temple Hymn
  Song of the hoe
  Innana Descent to the Underworld
  Epic of Gilgamesh
  Epic of Enmerkar
  Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
  Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana
  Epic of Lugalbanda
  Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave
  Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird
caption: Pyramid texts from Teti I's pyramid.
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