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The Book of Am-Tuat
by E. A. Wallis Budge
London; Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
[1905]
Scanned at Sacred-texts.com, May 2003. J.B. Hare, Redactor. This text is in the public domain. These files may be used for any
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The Book of Am-Tuat
by E. A. Wallis Budge
[1905]
This book is an Ancient Egyptian cosmological treatise which describes the Tuat, the underworld that the
boat of the Sun God, Ra, traverses during the night hours. Each chapter deals with one of the twelve
hours of the night. A hallucinogenic travelogue of the netherworld, this extensively illustrated book
depicts hundreds of gods and goddesses that appear nowhere else in the literature.
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Contents
The Book Am-Tuat: the Title of the Work
Chapter I: The First Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Net-Ra
Chapter II: The Second Division of the Tuat, Which is Called Urnes
Chapter III: The Third Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Net-Neb-Ua-Kheper-Aut
Chapter IV: The Fourth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Ankhet-Kheperu
Chapter V: The Fifth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Ament
Chapter VI. The Sixth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Metchet-Mu-Nebt-Tuat.
Chapter VII. The Seventh Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Thephet-Asar
Chapter VIII. The Eighth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Tebat-Neteru-s
Chapter IX. The Ninth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Best-Aru-Ankhet-Kheperu
Chapter X. The Tenth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Metet-Qa-Utchebu
Chapter XI. The Eleventh Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Re-En-Qerert-Apt-Khatu
Chapter XII. The Twelfth Division of the Tuat, Which Is Called Then-Neteru
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THE BOOK AM-TUAT
THE TITLE OF THE WORK
"THE WRITINGS AND THE DRAWINGS OF THE HIDDEN PALACE WHICH APPERTAIN TO THE
SOULS, AND THE GODS, AND THE SHADOWS, AND THE SPIRITS, WHICH COMPOSE THE
BEGINNING OF THE HORN OF AMENT, OF THE HORIZON OF AMENT, [WHICH IS] THE
UTMOST BOUNDARY OF THE THICK DARKNESS OF THE HORIZON OF AMENTET,
CONTAINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SOULS OF THE TUAT, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF
THE SECRET SOULS, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DOORS AND THE WAYS THROUGH
AND ON WHICH THE GREAT GOD JOURNEYETH, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF . . . . . . . ., AND
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOURS AND OF THEIR GODS, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
JOURNEYINGS OF THE HOURS AND OF THEIR GODS, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
FORMULAE [WHICH THEY SAY] TO RA, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPEECHES WHICH
HE MAKETH
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TO THEM, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GODS WHO PRAISE HIM AND OF THOSE WHO
EFFECT DESTRUCTION."
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CHAPTER I.
THE FIRST DIVISION OF THE TUAT, WHICH IS CALLED NET-RA.
IN the scene that illustrates the FIRST DIVISION of the Tuat, which is passed through by the Sun-god
during the FIRST HOUR of the night, we see that the centre of the middle section is divided lengthwise
into
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(Left) The Boat of Af, the dead Sun-god. (
Right)
Maati goddesses. Neken-f
.
two parts by a river which flows along it. In the upper part is the boat of the dead Sun-god AF, who is in
the form of a rain-headed man; he wears a disk upon his head, and stands within a shrine in the SEKTET
boat, i.e., the boat in which the god travels
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from noon to sunset. In front of the shrine in the boat stand the three deities, AP-UAT, SA, and the
"Lady of the Boat," who wears on her head a disk and horns. Behind the shrine stand five gods, each
having the head of a man; the names of the first four are HERU-HEKENU, KA-SHU, i.e., the "double of
Shu," NEHES, i.e., the "Look-out," and HU, and the fifth is the Steersman KHERP. On the high prow of
the Sektet boat hangs an object which is said to be a carpet by some, and a reed mat by others, and on
the side, near the curve of the prow, is an
utchat.
In front of the boat march:--
1. The two goddesses MAAT, the one representing the South of Egypt, and the other the North.
2. The god NEKENT-F, who holds a spear, or knife, in his left hand.
3. The god KHENTI AMENTET, bearded, and in mummy form, and wearing the White Crown and the
Menat.
4. The god SEKHET, or as it is written here SEKHMET, lioness-headed.
5. The god SEHETCH-UR, ram-headed.
6. Four Terms, the first of which is called UT-METU-RA,
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the second UT-METU-TEM, the third UT-METU-KHEPERA, and the fourth UT-METU-ASAR.
7. The leader of the company, who is called TCHA-UNNUT; by his side is a serpent, called SA (?), that
stands on his tail.
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The gods Khenti-Amentet, Sekhet, Sebeteh-ur, the Four-Terms, and Teha-Unnut
.
This scene is explained by the horizontal line of inscription written above it, and the hieroglyphic text,
based on the editions of Lefébure and Champollion, reads:--
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"The name of this Field is 'MAATI.' This god arriveth in the SEKTET BOAT, he maketh a way through
the Court of this city, which is two hundred and twenty measures in length, which he travelleth through
to URNES. He passeth through the water, which is three hundred measures in extent, and he bestoweth
the fields upon the gods who follow him. NET-RA is the name of this Field, ARNEBAUI is the name of
the guardian [of this Field]. This god beginneth to declare in this region the words which perform the
destinies (?) of those who are in the Tuat."
In the lower part of the middle section of the scene we have another boat, in the centre. of which is a
beetle; on one side of the beetle is a god with his knees in the direction of the prow of the boat, but
having his head turned behind him and his hands raised in adoration of the beetle, and on the other is a
god who also has his hands raised in adoration of the same object. The legend reads "the coming into
being of Osiris"; as the boat has
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no reed mat or carpet hanging from the prow, we may assume that it is intended to represent the Atet or
Matet Boat, i.e., the boat in which the Sun-god travelled over the sky from sunrise to noon.
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The Boat of the Birth of Osiris, with serpents and gods
.
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In
front of the boat glide three serpents, which are called SEK-RE, SEFA, and NEPEN,
and in front of these march four man-headed

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