PYRAMID TEXTS

This app contains the Pyramid Texts translated by Samuel A. B. Mercer.

The Pyramid Texts were funerary inscriptions that were written on the walls of the early Ancient Egyptian pyramids at Sakkara. These date back to the fifth and sixth dynasties, approximately the years 2350-2175 B.C.E. However, because of extensive internal evidence, it is believed that they were composed much earlier, circa 3000 B.C.E.

The Pyramid Texts are, therefore, essentially the oldest sacred texts known.

Samuel Mercer was the first to produce a complete English translation of this mysterious text, in 1952. This was also the first complete translation in any language.

Contents of this Pyramid Texts app include:

Preface

Introduction

1. Nut and the Deceased King

2. Ritual of Bodily Restoration of the Deceased, and Offerings

3. A Group of Prayers And Charms

4. A Series of Old Heliopolitan Texts Partly Osirianized

5. The Deceased King Receives Offerings and is Re-Established in His Functions and Possessions

6. Mostly Serpent Charms

7. The Deceased King Arrives in Heaven Where He is Established

8. The Deceased King Triumphs Over His Enemies and is Recognized by the Gods

9. Means Whereby the Deceased King Reaches Heaven

10. The Deceased King in Heaven

11. Charms

12. The Ferryman and the Deceased King's Ascension

13. A Series of Five Charms

14. Miscellaneous Utterances on the Career of the Deceased King in the Hereafter

15. Offerings for the Deceased King

16. Miscellaneous Utterances on the Hereafter

17. Conjurations and Charms

18. Utterances Concerning Well-Being, Especially Food and Clothes

19. In Praise of Nut

20. Miscellaneous Texts--Some Largely Osirian

21. Second Series in Praise of Nut

22. A Miscellaneous Group

23. A Series of Food Texts

24. A Series of Reed-Floats and Ferryman Texts

25. Miscellaneous Texts Chiefly About the Deceased King's Reception and Life in Heaven

26. For The Protection of the Pyramid Enclosure Against Osiris and His Cycle

27. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

28. A Litany of Ascension

29. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

30. Resurrection, Meal, and Ascension of the Deceased King

31. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

32. A Purification Litany

33. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

34. New-Birth of the Deceased King as a God in Heaven

35. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

36. The Resurrection and Ascension of the Deceased King

37. The Resurrection of Osiris with whom the Gods are Satisfied

38. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

39. An Early Hymn to the Sun

40. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

41. A Litany-Like Incantation for the Endurance of a Pyramid and Temple

42. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

43. The Resurrection, Ascension, and Reception of the Deceased King in Heaven

44. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

45. The Deceased King on Earth and in Heaven

46. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

47. The Ascended King, His Works, and Identifications

48. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

49. The Death of the King and His Arrival in Heaven

50. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

51. The Death, Resurrection, and Spiritualization of the King

52. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

53. Resurrection, Transfiguration, and Life of the King in Heaven

54. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

55. The Deceased King Ascends to Heaven

56. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

57. A Series of Addresses to the Deceased King as a God

58. Texts of Miscellaneous Contents

59. A Series of Unclassifiable Fragments

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