Ancient Egyptians are well known for their appreciation of death. They dealt with death as a mysterious part of the man’s journey. In addition, they believed in the afterlife.
They had spiritual rituals and spellbinding practices to help their dead pass their journies safely.
Those mysterious secrets of spellbinding rituals in ancient Egypt amazed the archaeologists and scientists. New studies revealed more interesting facts about their funerary practices according to Sputnik.
The new studies were dedicated to another mysterious funerary book called “Book of Breathing.” This book managed to attract the eyes of the researchers after the celebrated “The Book of the Dead.”
A new analysis of an ancient Book of Breathing provided fascinating revelations pertaining to its derivation from the Book of the Dead. The intricacies of postmortem deification in ancient Egypt according to Haaretz.
The Books of Breathing is one of the texts that appeared in late ancient Egypt. It enabled the deceased to continue to exist in the afterlife.
The “Book of Breathing”, believed to were written by Isis for Osiris; their purpose is helping the owner of the text join the gods in the afterlife.
The dead should have 3 Books of Breathing. The “First Book of Breathing” should be placed under the head; the “Second Book of Breathing” should be placed under the feet, and the third should be placed under the left arm.
Regarding the difference between the “Book of the Dead,” and the “Book of Breathing,” the Book of the Dead provided the individual spells of how to breathe and drink water, or how to navigate the underworld according to Research Archives at the University of Chicago. While the Book of Breathing carried a more developed form of the Book of the Dead spells.
