Motif
Afterlife benefit through recitation
afterlife_benefit_through_recitation
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
egyptian
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Legends of the Gods: The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations THE LEGEND OF THE DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND / CHAPTER IV. / THE LEGEND OF THE DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND / CHAPTER V.; lines 2487-2563 confidence: high
Whoever recites the chapter will have life in Neter-kher, or the Underworld; the passage also names Eternity and Everlastingness and says the speaker strengthened the boat with the company of the gods by words of power.
The passage states that whoever recites the chapter will have life in Neter-kher, glossed as the Underworld, and will possess increased fear or awe.
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