Egypt

Book of Breathing

Shai en Sensen (Book of Breathings)

By the Ptolemaic period a short, affordable spell of breathing granted through Osiris and Isis could substitute for the whole funerary library, condensing two thousand years of afterlife literature into a single cheap text.

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