Awakening Osiris: The Spiritual Keys to the Egyptian Book of
Description
“Awakening Osiris is not only a translation and a book of Egyptian religion, but also a spiritual work that will serve many Pagans as a prayer book of sorts, a book of meditations, something not to be read and left on the shelf, but to return to repeatedly.”, Judika Illes, author of Encyclopedia of Spirits
A beautiful and engaging rendering of The Egyptian Book of the Dead that reveals the soul and spirit of Egypt
The Egyptian Book of the Dead is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality. With Awakening Osiris, Ellis has transformed the ancient stories told through hieroglyphs for modern readers and approaches the Book of the Dead as a deep spiritual text capable of speaking to us today. These writings suggest that the divine world and the human world are not altogether separate; they remind us that the natural world, the substance of our lives, is fashioned from the stuff of the gods.
Why We Carry It
Normandi Ellis rendered the Book of the Dead as poetry rather than as a scholarly translation, and the result is something people keep by the bed and return to. Judika Illes calls it a prayer book of sorts.
Who It Is For
Anyone who found the standard translations impenetrable, and readers who want Egypt as devotional material rather than as archaeology.
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