RELG 201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Enlil, Intellectual Capital, Ashurnasirpal Ii

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 201
• Professor: Eric Bellavance

Document Summary

Coffin texts were found shortly after the intermediate period, when pyramids were looted. Pharaohs started to lose their power in becoming immortal and helping others become immortal, which is what everyone wanted, they all wanted to resurrect. Because pharaohs were of no help anymore and they were using the pyramid texts, egyptians started using coffins to become immortal and resurrect. On them: spells to help them resurrect. Different from pyramid texts: with pyramid texts, the pharaoh was becoming a god (says. With coffin texts, it was used for common people who were simply hoping to resurrect. Book of the dead emerged in the new kingdom. Not an actual book, but more of a papyrus that was placed in tombs. On them: magical spells for resurrection and immortality. Sometimes they were written on the walls of mortuary temples or family tombs. It was believed that the heart of the deceased was weighed by anubis.