Babylonian Legends and the Book of the Dead

Creation, Flood and the Journey After Death

E. A. Wallis Budge

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486296192
• Subtopic: Religion
• Index: Social Sciences

Two works in one volume: the Babylonian creation and flood legends, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead with the hieroglyphic text explained - the funerary spells that were meant to get a soul past every gate. This edition is bound with 39 plates of painting, among them works by Frederick Arthur Bridgman and Sydney Carline, and 21 in-text illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Discovery of the Tablets.
• Publication of the Creation Tablets.
• The Object of the babylonian Legend of the Creation.
• Variant Forms of the Babylonian Legend of the Creation.
• The “Bilingual” Version of the Creation Legend.
• The Legend of the Creation According to Berosus and Damascius.
• [The Creation of Man.]
• [Belus Creates the Universe.]
• The Seven Tablets of Creation. Description of Their Contents.
• The Seven Tablets of Creation.—Translation. First Tablet.
• Second Tablet.
• Third Tablet.
• Fourth Tablet.
• Fifth Tablet.
• Sixth Tablet.
• Seventh Tablet.
• Epilogue.
• Notes.
• Lost of the name of the Stars or Signs of the Zodiac, with a List Showing the Month that was Associated with Each Star in the Persian Period.
• The Book of the Dead. The Title.
• The Preservation of the Mummified Body in the Tomb by Thoth.
• The Book Per-t em hru, or [The Chapters of] Coming forth by (or, into) the Day, commonly called the “Book of the Dead.”
• Thoth, the Author of the Book of the Dead.
• Thoth and Osiris.
• Osiris as Judge of the Dead and King of the Under World.
• The Judgment of Osiris.
• The Kingdom of Osiris.
• A Short Description of the “Doors” or Chapters of the Book of the Dead.
• Note.
• About the Author