The Amduat (Book of the Hidden Chamber)
Translated by E. A. Wallis Budge
The complete selected Book Am-Tuat with all twelve divisions or hours, in the Budge translation, from Volume I explicitly linked by the chosen Egyptian Heaven and Hell source. Native illustrations and captions are omitted under HOUSE style.
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The opening
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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About this edition
- The words
- E. A. Wallis Budge's English translation, copied word for word.
- Copied from
- Left out
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- Printed errata (they cite print pages and lines; listed in the record, not applied) (2 blocks)
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages
- Pictures and their captions
- The source website's menus, layout and notices
- Marker of Budge's footnote, which is left out
- Closing line