Book of the Earth

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 in KV9

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.

  1. ^ Hornung, Erik (1999). The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP.
  2. ^ Book of the Earth Archived 2017-11-29 at the Wayback Machine by Jimmy Dunn writing as Taylor Ray Ellison