There exists a Livre of Dead the in several civilizations, the Livre of died of the Former Egyptians , the Livre of dead the Tibetan , the Maya Livre of deaths , etc In a general way, their goal is to guide the heart of late at the time of its voyage in the Au-delà.

Deliver deaths of the Former Egyptians

The Livre of the dead is a collection of magic formulas and incantations present in the ancient Egypt.

Placé close to the Mummy in its coffin, it made it possible late to be able to pass the tests which lead to the Champs of Ialou of Osiris (to be able ressusciter in beyond). It contains formulas to change, the names of the guards of the door of the judgment and negative confession of the misdeeds celebrates it which were not perpetrated, that death must recite to make its heart lighter than Maât.

Written in Hieratic on papyrus, these texts are found starting from the Nouvel Empire () until the time gréco-Roman.

The “book of deaths”, although it is the most known name of these works, is only one very approximate translation of its title. Here closer proposals for translations:

• Book of died and the rebirth;
• Book to leave to the light;
• Book of the exit at the day;
• Book of transfigurations and glorifications in the Empire of deaths.

Translations

The scientists of the forwarding of Egypt had collected texts that Champollion had called funeral rituals .

The first translation goes back to 1842, by the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, according to a papyrus preserved at the Egyptological Musée of Turin, which it called Todtenbuch (Book of Dead), name which then remained.

In 1881, the Dutch Egyptologist Willem Pleyte supplemented the chapters already published by Lepsius, under the title additional Chapitres of the Book of Deaths, 162 to 174; published according to the monuments of Leyde, Louvre and British Museum .

In 1886, the Swiss Egyptologist Henri Edouard Naville published what it called the Bible of the former Egyptians .

In 1898, the English Egyptologist Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, conservative with the British Museum, following its discovery in 1887 with Thèbes of the Papyrus of Ani, made in its turn appear an edition of the whole of the chapters of the Livre of dead the under the title of Chapitres of the exit of the day.

Since, very many editions use these texts which are from now on public domain; so one finds them on quantity of personal sites of impassioned Egyptology.

Deliver Tibetan deaths

See also: Bardo Thödol

They are the instructions to be transmitted to the dying man and to late to enable him to cross the various stages of the bardo, so, contrary to the Livre of died from the Former Egyptians , not to reappear, but to escape the cycle from the rebirth and the life.

Deliver Maya deaths

Another meaning

In the myth of Cthulhu, tallies of the Romance Fantastique S of Howard Philips Lovecraft, the “book of deaths” is the nickname of the Necronomicon , a fictitious book, which is supposed to be written by the Arab demented person Abdul Al Azred under the influence of Cthulhu itself.