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This volume contains the complete translation of the Pyramid Texts, including new texts recently discovered and published.
These are hieroglyphic religious texts inscribed upon the interior walls of the pyramid tombs of kings and queens beginning around 2345 BCE. This book explores the Pyramid Texts.
Samuel Mercer was the first to produce a complete English translation. This is Volume 1 of a 4 Volume set. This particular volume, apart from the Preface and Introduction, contains the actual verses of the Pyramid texts.
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts
A radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals • Reveals the mystical nature of Egyptian civilization denied by orthodox Egyptologists • Examines the similarity between the ...
Features: Sequential translations based on all available sources, including texts newly discovered in the last decade Texts numbered according to the most widely used numbering system with new numbers from the latest 2013 concordance ...
The first volume, devoted to the earliest corpus, that of Unis, is based on a database that allows for detailed analysis of the orthography of the texts and every aspect of their grammar; it includes a complete hieroglyphic lexicon of the ...
Edited by Edward Mendelson. New York: Random House, 1976. Calasso, Roberto. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. New York: Vintage Press, 1994. Catullus 85, author's translation. Chester Beatty Papyrus IV, author's translation.
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The Pyramid Texts were carved onto the walls of burial chambers in royal pyramids 4,000 years ago.