Deliver of Amdouat
The Amdouat which means as a former Egyptian, “what there is in the Douat” (i.e. in beyond), is an important funerary religious text of the ancient Egypt more known under the name of Livre of Amdouat , Livre of the hidden room or Livre of the secret residences .
It appeared in the tombs thebaines of the Vallée of the Kings of the beginning of (Nouvel Empire). Like many funerary texts, he was written in the tomb in reference to the late one. On the other hand, it, contrary to the other funerary texts, was reserved for noble and the Pharaon S.
Amdouat tells the history of the god Re, god of the sun, traversing the world of in lower part, the world of the night when the sun lies down in the west and until it reappears in the east. The text prepares the Pharaon to follow such a voyage, to do only one with the sun and to become, in the long term, immortal.
The world of in lower part is divided into twelve hours of the night, each one comprising of combined or the opponents to the immortality of the claiming Pharaon; hundreds of monsters and gods carrying out a keen fight. Amdouat gives the name of hundreds of divinities likely to help the Pharaon, who will be able to thus invite them to overcome his enemies.
The oldest version of Amdouat was exhumed tomb KV34, that of Thoutmôsis {{III}}, in the valley of the kings.
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