Works like Book of the Dead

Book of the Dead is still unknown and belongs to Before 1700. These works share its status, era, or form, ranked by how much they share.

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Book of the Earth
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An ancient Egyptian funerary composition showing the sun's night journey through the earth god Aker. Anonymous, like all Egyptian netherworld books.
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Coffin Texts
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The Middle Kingdom corpus of Egyptian funerary spells painted on coffins, ancestor of the Book of the Dead. Composed anonymously within priestly tradition.
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Key of Solomon
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The most famous of the grimoires, attributed by its own tradition to King Solomon. Its actual medieval and Renaissance compilers are unknown.
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Litany of Re
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A New Kingdom Egyptian funerary text invoking the sun god in seventy five forms. Produced by priestly tradition; the record names no author, only 'the clergy'.
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Pyramid Texts
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The oldest religious texts of ancient Egypt, carved in pyramids from the twenty fourth century BCE. Institutional priestly compositions with no recorded author.
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Spell of the Twelve Caves
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An ancient Egyptian funerary composition enumerating twelve caves of the underworld and their gods. Anonymous priestly tradition.
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The Book of Gates
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The New Kingdom Egyptian netherworld book of the twelve gates of the night. An institutional priestly composition with no recorded author.
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Amduat
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An ancient Egyptian netherworld book describing the sun god's journey through the twelve hours of night. Like all Egyptian funerary literature, it names no author.
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Book of Caverns
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An ancient Egyptian netherworld book depicting the sun god's passage over six caverns of the underworld. No author is recorded in the tradition.
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Book of the Heavens
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A group of New Kingdom compositions charting the sun's passage across the sky and through the body of the sky goddess Nut. No author is recorded.
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Book of the Netherworld
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The family of ancient Egyptian compositions describing the underworld's geography and the sun's night journey. All are anonymous products of priestly tradition.
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Chilam Balam
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The Yucatec Maya books of prophecy, history, and medicine, compiled by unnamed town scribes and attributed by tradition to the priest Chilam Balam.

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