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{{CTD literature
|term=Book of the Dead
|title=Book of the Dead
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|description=An ancient Egyptian ritualistic and occult work attributed to Thot‐Hermes. Found in the coffins of ancient mummies {{ctd-source|TG}}.
|description=An ancient Egyptian ritualistic and occult work attributed to Thot‐Hermes. Found in the coffins of ancient mummies {{ctd-source|TG}}.


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Conventional title for ancient Egyptian collections of funerary spells, hymns and invocations, preserved on monuments and papyri. The bibliography distinguishes Heliopolitan, Theban and Saite recensions {{ctd-source|BCW|10|413-415}}.
Conventional title for ancient Egyptian collections of funerary spells, hymns and invocations, preserved on monuments and papyri. The bibliography distinguishes Heliopolitan, Theban and Saite recensions {{ctd-source|BCW|10|413-415}}.
In E. A. Wallis Budge’s English translation of the Theban recension (1928), p. 318, the description of the barley occurs in chapter CIX, verses 7-8, whereas [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] cites verses 4-5. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] suggests that she may have used a different recension. {{ctd-source|1=[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Psychology of Ancient Egypt#55|BCW 10:55-56]]}}
|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky; Zirkoff, Boris
|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky; Zirkoff, Boris
|ctd rus=Книга Мёртвых
|ctd rus=Книга Мёртвых
|mentioned in=[[Blavatsky H.P. - Psychology of Ancient Egypt|Psychology of Ancient Egypt]] ([[Blavatsky H.P. - Psychology of Ancient Egypt#55|BCW 10:55-56]])
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