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THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality. Until now, the available translations have treated these writings as historical curiosities with little relevance to our contemporary situation. This new version, made from the hieroglyphs, approaches the Book of the Dead as a profound spiritual text capable of speaking to us today. 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. Devoted like an Egyptian scribe to the principle of "effective utterance", Normandi Ellis has produced a prose translation that reads like pure, diaphanous verse.
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An essential companion to more academic versions,
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This review is from: Awakening Osiris: Egyptian Book of the Dead (Paperback)
'Awakening Osiris' mightn't be a literal translation, and for some it might veer too close to New Age territory. But many readers will find it an enlightening counterpoint to some of the drier academic versions. Much of Ellis's writing is genuinely inspiring and moving, which surely the Egyptian texts were meant to be. For all we know she might be closer to the spirit of the originals than anyone.
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This is an outstanding source of the highest information.,
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Awakening Osiris is one of the best books I have ever encountered. This is the only time I have seen an established spritual text interpreted with such feeling. Spirit resides in these words. All spiritualities will find a common thread here. Seek the book, The End Times too.
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While not a literal translation of the BoD, Ellis manages to,
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While not a literal translation of the BoD, Ellis manages to get across the beauty and emotion of the texts. I would use it as a supplement to the Faulkner translation.
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