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The Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani. 1. Ani adoring the gods of Sekhet-Aaru. 3. Ani ploughing in the Other World. 2. Ani reaping in the Other World. 4. The abode of the perfect spirits, and the magical boats. THE. Literature . OF THE. ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. BY. WALLIS BUDGE, , Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar; Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum 1914. LONDON. DENT & SONS LIMITED. Aldine House, Bedford Street, [v]. PREFACE. This little book is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian Literature . Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs, to all who are interested in the study of the mental development of ancient nations. It is not addressed to the Egyptological specialist, to whom, as a matter of course, its contents are well known, and therefore its pages are not loaded with elaborate notes and copious references.

this world less in comparison with the salvation of his soul and the preservation of his physical body. The immediate result of this was a perpetual demand on his part for information concerning the Other World,

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