The Egyptian Book of Living and Dying

For Carole (1948-2001):
"May you go forth by day, may you join with the sun disc, and may his rays illuminate your face."

Egypt's all-embracing framework of myths encompassed at least three accounts of creation.

On a stela of the first century BCE the land of the dead is described as a plae where the dead "sleep as mummies, never waking", while "All whom [death] calls come at once, their hearts in fear".