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Sacred Texts Egypt

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PREFACE	9
CHAPTER I. The Belief in God Almighty	17
CHAPTER II. Osiris the God of the Resurrection	61
CHAPTER III. The "Gods" of the Egyptians	108
CHAPTER IV. The judgment of the Dead	136
CHAPTER V. The Resurrection and Immortality	183

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Resurrection of Osiris	16
Osiris-Nepra, with wheat growing from his body	31
Isis pouring out a libation in honor of the soul of Osiris	32
The Creation	43
Osiris seated on his throne by, or above a lake of water	44

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Osiris in the character of Menu and Harpokrates, as they sat in the disk of the moon	55
Osiris standing between Isis and Nephthys	56
Osiris rising from his bier at the command of Horus	69
Setting up the Tet	69
The king handing the Tet to Isis	69
The Tet of Osiris	70
The Tet, from which proceeds "Life"	70
Isis suckling Horus in the papyrus swamp	79
Osiris Hemka begetting a son by Isis	80
Osiris on his bier under which are vases containing his intestines	80
The soul of Râ meeting the soul of Osiris in Tattu	85
Horus and his four sons standing before Osiris and Serapis	86
Osiris in his closed shrine, accompanied by Isis and his four grandsons	95
Thoth and Horus binding together the thrones of Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys	96
Osiris being embraced by Isis and Nephthys	117
Isis and Nephthys bewailing the death of Osiris	118
Thoth, the advocate of Osiris	118

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The judgment of the dead in the hall of Maâti	163
The wicked being burnt in a pit of fire	164
The deceased being led into the presence of Osiris	173
Osiris seated in judgment on top of a flight of nine steps	174
The Elysian fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Nebseni	197
The "doubles" of Ani and his wife drinking water in the Other World	198
Isis giving bread and water to the Heart-Soul	198
The Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani	207
Osiris seated in his shrine at Abydos	208
The Elysian fields according to the Papyrus of Anhai	213
The weighing of the heart in the presence of Râ	24
The deceased setting out for the Other World	214
The deceased building himself a house in the Other World	214

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The resurrection of Osiris. From the bas-relief at Philae.

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