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The Book of Caverns (Arabic: كتاب الكهوف, romanized: Kitab al-Kuhuf) is an important ancient Egyptian netherworld book of the New Kingdom.[1] Like all other netherworld books, it is also attested on the inside of kings’ tombs for the benefit of the deceased. It describes the journey of the sun god Ra through the six caverns of the underworld, focusing on the interaction between the sun god and the inhabitants of the netherworld, including rewards for the righteous and punishments for the enemies of the worldly order, those who fail their judgment in the afterlife. The Book of Caverns is one of the best sources of information about the Egyptian concept of hell.[2]
The Book of Caverns originated in the 13th century BC in the Ramesside Period.[3] The earliest known version of this work is on the left hand wall of the Osireion in Abydos.[1] Later it appears in the tomb of Ramesses IV in the Valley of the Kings. This appearance was already recorded by the founding father of Egyptology Jean François Champollion in his letters from Egypt.
^ abHornung (1999) p.83
^"The Book of Caverns". www.touregypt.net (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-03-17.
^Werning (2011), vol. I, ch. V, with English summary on p. 262.
The BookofCaverns (Arabic: كتاب الكهوف, romanized: Kitab al-Kuhuf) is an important ancient Egyptian netherworld bookof the New Kingdom. Like all other...
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the Bookof Day and Night (a cosmically focused mythological text from the Twentieth Dynasty, c. 1186–1069 BCE) as follows: "As to this foreleg of Seth...
father of the Galactic Agent hero, Croyd. Aleister Crowley's Egyptian style Thoth tarot deck and its written description in his 1944 book The Bookof Thoth...
Cooper's 1877 book and Acharya S's self-published 2008 book, among others, have suggested that there are many similarities between the story of Horus and...
New York: Harper and Brothers. ISBN 9780837017464. OCLC 682445427. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) "Ptah". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University...
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Egyptian Archaeoastronomy. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities Press. pp. 197–212. Bibcode:2009iscc.book.....B. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-12-02...
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temple of his own. In later times he could also be depicted as a ram, a bull or a crocodile (the latter in a vignette of the Bookof the Dead of the lady...
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are decorated with the texts of the Bookof Gates, which describes the twelve gates or pylons of the underworld: in spite of being imagined as architectural...
and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–74. Jeremiah. xlvi.25. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title=...
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