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Pyramid Texts

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Meaning

Pyramid Texts

A corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the Old Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead king into the afterlife, carved on pyramid walls and sarcophagi.

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Examples

Pyramid Texts, Utterance 366, 629a-629c: "Behold, thou art great and round like the Great Round; Behold, thou are bent around, and art round like the Circle which encircles the nbwt; Behold, thou art round and great like the Great Circle which sets." Source: Internet

Most of these writings were made for the general populace, so unlike the Pyramid Texts, they link Osiris with all deceased souls, not exclusively with royalty. Source: Internet

The Pyramid Texts, first written at this time, reflect the prominence of the solar and Osirian concepts of the afterlife, although they also contain remnants of much older traditions. Source: Internet

The Pyramid Texts present the pharaoh as a fusion of the two deities. Source: Internet

The two stories were joined into the single Osiris myth sometime before the writing of the Pyramid Texts. Source: Internet

Thus she had a funerary association, her name appearing over eighty times in the pharaoh's funeral texts (the Pyramid Texts ). Source: Internet

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