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| THE EGYPTIAN PRINCESS Who Lost Her Scroll of the Dead |
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NOTE FROM HISTORY:
A puzzling scroll turned up in the
tomb of a young girl.
Archaeologists found a totally
blank, rolled up scroll, nothing marking its surface, except the faintly ribbed
grain of the papyrus and a few stains of age.
Fine quality papyrus, yet an unused
scroll. A mystery. But from the scroll’s container, we know it was supposed to
contain the written texts of the Book of the Dead, a guide for the soul of the
dead in the underworld, a sort of passport filled with magical spells.
Without it, a soul could not hope
to pass through gateways guarded by fearsome gatekeepers and so reach the
heavenly Fields of Aaru.
What had happened? Had a greedy
scribe secretly tricked the young girl, exchanging her costly scroll, filled
with hieroglyphic spells, for a blank one, so that he could sell it again to
another family?
Imagine her dismay when she found
herself alone and unprotected in the dangers of the Egyptian underworld,
clutching an empty scroll of papyrus?
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