Book of the Earth
Ancient Egyptian funerary text / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with The Book of Earth, The Book of Five Rings § The Book of Earth, or Book Two: Earth.
The Book of the Earth (Arabic: كتاب الارض, romanized: Kitab al-Arid) is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text that has been called many names such as The Creation of the Sun Disk and the Book of Aker.[1] The Book primarily appears on the tombs of Merneptah, Twosret, Ramesses III, Ramesses VI, and Ramesses VII and serves as a counterpart to the Book of Caverns.[2]
The central figures in the story are Osiris, Ra and Ba, while the overarching plot is the journey the sun takes through the earth god, Aker.