Texts might be in foreign languages or written in unfamiliar scripts that had become illegible over time.

However, if the ka was not properly prepared, this journey could be fraught with dangerous pitfalls and strange demons ; hence some of the earliest religious texts discovered, such as the Papyrus of Ani ( commonly known as The Book of the Dead ) and the Pyramid Texts were actually written as guides to help the deceased successfully navigate the duat.

Texts of the Egyptian tradition emerge later and contain many more tales of much more varied content ; a much larger number of originally independent tales have been incorporated into the collection over the centuries, most of them after the Galland manuscript was written,

The same elements from the myth that appear in the Pyramid Texts recur in funerary texts written in later times, such as the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2055 – 1650 BC ) and the Book of the Dead from the New Kingdom ( c. 1550 – 1070 BC ).

As the Osiris myth first appears in the Pyramid Texts, most of its essential features must have taken shape sometime before the texts were written.

Texts in the Hurrian language have been found at Hattusa, Ugarit ( Ras Shamra ), as well as one of the longest of the Amarna letters, written by King Tushratta of Mitanni to Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

The last written records in Akkadian were Astrological Texts dating from 78 AD discovered in Assyria.

The Pyramid Texts were written in an unusual hieroglyphic style ; many of the hieroglyphs representing humans or animals were left incomplete or drawn mutilated, most likely to prevent them causing any harm to the dead pharaoh.

The Coffin Texts were most commonly written on the inner surfaces of coffins, though they are occasionally found on tomb walls or on papyri.

The gradual evolution of consensus about the meaning of Carl Andre's art can be found in About Carl Andre: Critical Texts Since 1965, published by Ridinghouse in 2008. The most significant essays and exhibition reviews have been collated into one volume, including texts written by some of the most influential art historians and critics: Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert C. Morgan, Barbara Rose and Roberta Smith.

The Mawangdui Silk Texts () are texts of Chinese philosophical and medical works written on silk and found at Mawangdui in China in 1973.

# Two Hundred Texts on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God ( written for Thalassios )

He has written two novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts ( 2006 ), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.

Some of the earliest surviving written religious scriptures are the Pyramid Texts, produced by the Egyptians, the oldest of which date to between 2400 and 2300 BCE.

Texts inscribed in stone are usually for public view and so they are essentially different from the written texts of each culture.

Texts are written right-to-left in the Kharoṣṭhī script, which had been adapted for Indo-Aryan languages from a Semitic alphabet, the Aramaic alphabet.

Texts written in various ancient languages seem to indicate that the first vowel was both long and round, and the final vowel was short.

Texts written in the Ancient Greek language.

Imam Baihaqi in ' Dala ' il an-Nubuwwat ' has written that these Surahs were revealed together, and hence their combined name of Mu ' awwidhatayn .<> Mu ' awwidhatayn, USC MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts </ ref > There is a Sunnah tradition from Muhammad of reading them over the sick or before sleeping and they are also considered a healing.

Plain Texts 1987 );, written in 1396 ( P. Meyer, Rev.

Before being inscribed on funerary figurines, the spell was written on some mid-Twelfth Dynasty coffins from Bersheh ( about 1850 BC ) and is known today as spell 472 of the Coffin Texts.

( 1885 ) The Oldest English Texts: glossaries, the Vespasian Psalter, and other works written before A. D. 900.

( 1885 ) The Oldest English Texts: glossaries, the Vespasian Psalter, and other works written before AD 900.

Texts were written in Hebrew letters ( aljamiado português ) or in Latin script.

In 1913, two of Berg's Five Songs on Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg ( 1912 ) were premièred in Vienna, conducted by Schoenberg.

In addition to his writings on computer science, Knuth, a Lutheran, is also the author of 3: 16 Bible Texts Illuminated, in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling, namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book.

* Texts on Ancient Mathematics and Mathematical Astronomy PDF scans ( Note: many are very large files ).

Texts of the First Lateran Council may vary in both wording and numbering of the canons depending on source.

* Sartre Texts on Philosophy Archive

* Texts on Sartre Sartre Rubric on the website of the Sorbonne Marx Seminar

" Runes around the North Sea and on the Continent AD150-700: Texts and Contexts.

), Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde, Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York 2006, 156 – 186.

Most information we have on the myths of Osiris is derived from allusions contained in the Pyramid Texts at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, later New Kingdom source documents such as the Shabaka Stone and the Contending of Horus and Seth, and much later, in narrative style from the writings of Greek authors including Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.

His first attempt to do this was entitled ‘ Commentary on Certain Texts Which Deal with Antichrist ’ ( 1640 ), in which he attempted to argue that the texts relating to Antichrist had their fulfillment in the 1st century AD.

* Sacred Texts site hosts texts — scriptures, literature and scholarly works — on Satan, Satanism and related religious matters

On June 11, 2011, the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts issued a statement regarding episcopal consecrations in China, saying that the penalty of excommunication imposed by law on those who consecrate or are consecrated without a papal mandate " must be tempered or a penance employed in its place " when those involved in the intrinsically evil act are " coerced by grave fear, even if only relatively grave, or due to necessity or grave inconvenience ".

* Thelema at the Internet Sacred Texts Archive — a collection of texts on the topic of Thelema

( Social and Economic Commentaries on Classical Texts ; 4 ).

The Talmud derives this from a calculation based on Biblical Texts.

The earliest mentions of the Osiris myth are in the Pyramid Texts, the first Egyptian funerary texts, which appeared on the walls of burial chambers in pyramids at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, during the 25th century BC.

** Jamal Badawi: Muslim and Non-Muslim Relations: Reflections on Some Qur ’ anic Texts 5 April 2005

The myth of Set's conflict with Horus, Osiris, and Isis appears in many Egyptian sources, including the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, the Shabaka Stone, inscriptions on the walls of the temple of Horus at Edfu, and various papyrus sources.

* Amy G. Remensnyder, " The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

Textual variants found in the Abisha scroll were published in 1959 by Federico Pérez Castro and between 1961 and 1965 by A. and R. Sadaqa in Jewish and Samaritan Versions of the Pentateuch-With Particular Stress on the Differences Between Both Texts.

Texts such as Forfess Fer Fálgae and Siaburcharpát Con Culainn describe a raid on Inis Fer Falga ( possibly the Isle of Man ) in which Cú Roí and Cú Chulainn come into conflict.

Thus, Nephthys was also seen in the Pyramid Texts as a supportive cosmic force occupying the night-bark on the journey of Ra, the majestic sun god, particularly when he entered Duat at the transitional time of dusk, or twilight.

* Susan P. Millinger, " Epic Values: The Song of Roland ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),