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The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Volume I: The Book Am-Tuat

Anonymous (New Kingdom Egypt) · tr. E. A. Wallis Budge · tr. 1905 · 23,974 words

The sun-god’s night journey by boat through the twelve hours of the underworld, with the gods, gates and serpents the dead must know to pass with him.

Editor’s note: Budge’s commentary reflects the confident and sometimes dismissive tone of Edwardian Egyptology toward Egyptian religion; it is kept as written.

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The Book Am-Tuat: The Title of the Work

"THE WRITINGS AND THE DRAWINGS OF THE HIDDEN PALACE WHICH APPERTAIN TO THE SOULS, AND THE GODS, AND THE SHADOWS, AND THE SPIRITS, WHICH COMPOSE THE BEGINNING OF THE HORN OF AMENT, OF THE HORIZON OF AMENT, [WHICH IS] THE UTMOST BOUNDARY OF THE THICK DARKNESS OF THE HORIZON OF AMENTET, CONTAINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SOULS OF THE TUAT, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SECRET SOULS, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DOORS AND THE WAYS THROUGH AND ON WHICH THE GREAT GOD JOURNEYETH, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF........, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOURS AND OF THEIR GODS, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE JOURNEYINGS OF THE HOURS AND OF THEIR GODS, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FORMULAE [WHICH THEY SAY] TO RA, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPEECHES WHICH HE MAKETH TO THEM, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GODS WHO PRAISE HIM AND OF THOSE WHO EFFECT DESTRUCTION."

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Contents

  1. The Book Am-Tuat: The Title of the Work
  2. Chapter I: The First Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Net-Ra
  3. Chapter II: The Second Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Urnes
  4. Chapter III: The Third Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Net-Neb-Ua-Kheper-Aut
  5. Chapter IV: The Fourth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Ankhet-Kheperu
  6. Chapter V: The Fifth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Ament
  7. Chapter VI: The Sixth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Metchet-Mu-Nebt-Tuat
  8. Chapter VII: The Seventh Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Thephet-Asar
  9. Chapter VIII: The Eighth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Tebat-Neteru-s
  10. Chapter IX: The Ninth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Best-Aru-Ankhet-Kheperu
  11. Chapter X: The Tenth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Metet-Qa-Utchebu
  12. Chapter XI: The Eleventh Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Re-En-Qerert-Apt-Khatu
  13. Chapter XII: The Twelfth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Then-Neteru

About this edition

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive

Public domain: First published tr. 1905; public domain in the United States.

What’s included: Budge’s translation (1905) of the Book of What Is in the Underworld: the title of the work and all twelve divisions. The vignettes are not reproduced.

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