Book of the Earth

The Book of the Earth ( also Book of the Earth) is an ancient Egyptian religious treatise, which is shown on grave chamber walls and anthropomorphic coffins of some Ramesside kings of the 20th Dynasty. It describes the journey of the nocturnal sun through the body of the god Aker.

In contrast to the Book of Gates and Imydwat no hour division is evident. The western entrance to the Duat and the eastern birth of the sun god are not addressed. In the " Book of the Earth " are primarily the contents of the third hour of the night the Book of Gates used.

For the first time, the " Book of the Earth " was entirely in the grave chamber of Ramses V. / VI. shown, and two more times in the grave chambers of Ramses VII and Ramesses IX .. It can already be found in the grave representations of Ramses III ..

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