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The Book of the Am-Tuat

E.A. Wallis Budge

The Book of the Am-Tuat

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In "The Book of the Am-Tuat," E. A. Wallis Budge translates and discusses an important ancient Egyptian text describing the sun god’s nocturnal journey through the underworld. The work is historically valuable as one of the classic scholarly editions introducing readers to Egyptian afterlife cosmology, and it contains detailed scenes, names, and divisions of the netherworld.

About E.A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge (1857–1934) was a British Egyptologist, museum curator, and prolific translator whose editions of Egyptian funerary and religious texts became foundational in the study of ancient religion and occult reception. His publications helped popularize ancient Egyptian spirituality in both scholarly and esoteric circles.

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