A beautiful and engaging rendering of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
It comes as close to an appreciation of the themes of the soul\'s journey portrayed in the Egyptian Book of the Dead as any modern interpretation has, and with a poetry unmatched anywhere in the literature thus far.--KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt.
Anyone reading this work cannot help but be moved by it.
This edition replaces the previous edition (ISBN 978-0933999749) and contains a new introduction and study guide by the author.
Devoted like an Egyptian scribe to the principle of effective utterance, Normandi Ellis has produced a prose translation that reads like pure, diaphanous verse.
These writings suggest that the divine realm and the human realm are not altogether separate--they remind us that the natural world, and the substance of our lives, is fashioned from the stuff of the gods.
This new version, made from the hieroglyphs, approaches the Book of the Dead as a profound Spiritual text capable of speaking to us today.
Until now, the available translations have treated these writings as historical curiosities that have little relevance to our contemporary situations.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality.
A beautiful and engaging rendering of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
