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    Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

    By Normandi Ellis

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    The Egyptian Book of the Dead is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality. Until now, the available translations have treated these writings as historical curiosities with little relevance to our contemporary situation. This new version, made from the hieroglyphs, approaches the Book of the Dead as a profound spiritual text capable of speaking to us today. These writings suggest that the divine realm and the human realm are not altogether separate--they remind us that the natural world, and the substance of our lives, is fashioned from the stuff of the gods. Devoted like an Egyptian scribe to the principle of "effective utterance", Normandi Ellis has produced a prose translation that reads like pure, diaphanous verse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateJun 5, 2009
    ISBN9781609258542
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    Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
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    Normandi Ellis

    Normandi Ellis is an award-winning writer, workshop facilitator, and director of PenHouse Retreat Center. The author of several books, including Awakening Osiris, and coauthor of Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt, she leads tours to Egypt with Shamanic Journeys, Ltd., and lives in Frankfort, Kentucky.

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    • 5/5
      good read !
    • 3/5
      This is a very poetic rendering of what was intended to be a book of spells to help the deceased pass through the afterlife tests to achieve immortality at his final judgement.

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    • 1/5
      A beautiful piece of creative writing, but calling it a translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead is somewhat misleading.

      2 people found this helpful