The Egyptian Heaven and Hell
Subtitle: Volume 3. The Contents of the Books of the Other World Described and Compared
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: October 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781402194955
Subjects: Egypt,Egyptian Eschatology,Am-Tuat,The Book Am-Tuat,The Book of Gates,the books of the other world
First sentence: THE inhabitants of Egypt during the Dynastic Period of their history possessed, in common with other peoples of similar antiquity, very definite ideas about the abode of departed spirits, but few, if any, ancient nations caused their beliefs about the situation and form, and divisions, and inhabitants of their Heaven and Hell, or "Other World," to be described so fully in writing, and none have illustrated the written descriptions of their beliefs so copiously with pictorial representations of the gods and devils, and the good and evil spirits and other beings, who were supposed to exist in the kingdom of the dead.