Tuesday, December 6, 2011

The Coffin Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian funerary spells written on coffins beginning in the First Intermediate Period. The texts are derived in part from the earlier pyramid texts, reserved for royal use only, but they contain substantial new material related to everyday desires that reflects the fact that the texts were now used by the common people. Ordinary Egyptians who could afford to have a coffin had access to these funerary spells and the pharaoh no longer had exclusive rights to the afterlife.[1][2]
As the modern name of this collection of some 1,185 spells implies, the texts are mostly found on Middle Kingdom coffins. However they are sometimes inscribed on tomb walls, stelae, canopic chests, papyri and even mummy masks. Due to the limited writing surfaces of some of these objects, the collection was often abbreviated, and this gave rise to long and short versions of some of the spells, a number of which were later copied in the Book of the Dead.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_Texts
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    This is the first i am hearing of spells being used to guide the spirit back into the sum of all things. I am very interested in these heka's to be used in all aspects of every day life. Must find a way to research them got a feeling it 's going to be impossible to dig up some real issh.. lol
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