Book of the Dead

短语

别名

BD

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    An ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, developed from the earlier Coffin Texts.

  2. 2.

    Any comparable text from another culture intended to serve as a guide to the experiences one has after death, such as the Tibetan Book of the Dead or Ethiopian Book of the Dead.

词源

A calque of German Todtenbuch (der Ägypter), used by Karl Richard Lepsius in his publication (1842) describing the text.

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