Pictorial and textual compositions inscribed in New Kingdom royal tombs that describe the passage of the sun god through the underworld and the sky. They probably imparted secret knowledge and included hundreds of names of demons and of deities and other beings who accompanied the sun god in his barque on his journey through night and day. The texts are in the present tense and form a description and a series of tableaux rather than a narrative. Private individuals used them in the Late Period.
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