Egyptian funerary religion
Ra
Hymns address Ra at sunrise and celebrate his rays, movement, and concealment. The deceased seeks admission to the hidden land and companionship with those who travel in the god’s bark. Tirard describes identification with Ra as a high form of posthumous manifestation. The dead person may traverse the sky with the sun rather than remain confined to an agricultural afterlife.
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Principal account
TraditionalHymns address Ra at sunrise and celebrate his rays, movement, and concealment. The deceased seeks admission to the hidden land and companionship with those who travel in the god’s bark.
Further detail
TraditionalTirard describes identification with Ra as a high form of posthumous manifestation. The dead person may traverse the sky with the sun rather than remain confined to an agricultural afterlife.
Context & interpretation
Tirard’s 1910 account interprets selected funerary texts and rituals through the scholarship of her period. Local cults and surviving manuscripts vary; her comparisons and proposed origins are not a modern Egyptological consensus.
Original passages
Source 1
The Book of the Dead
riseth up from the Horizon as Ra in union with MaatOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 77
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0077
- Original scan leaf
- 87
- Recorded leaf number
- 77
- Current Reader position
- 71
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Source 2
The Book of the Dead
he might be exalted to identification with the Sun-god Ra, and receive the power and privilege of traversing the sky in the solar bark.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 85
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0085
- Original scan leaf
- 95
- Recorded leaf number
- 85
- Current Reader position
- 79
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
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Solar Bark
The sun god’s vessel and a vehicle of the glorified dead.
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