'Pictures of great importance in the New Kingdom collection of funerary texts now called the Egyptian Book of the Dead,' wrote Geraldine Pinch, an Egyptologist, in her book ' Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction (opens in new tab)' (Oxford University Press, 2004). The chapters of the 'Book of the Dead' described some of the things one might encounter - such as the weighing of the heart ceremony in which a person's deeds were weighed against the feather of the goddess Maat, a deity associated with justice. The ancient Egyptians believed that the body of the deceased could be renewed in the afterlife leaving a person to navigate a place of 'gods, demons, mysterious locations and potential obstacles,' wrote Kemp.

One of these essential spells is now known as Spell 17, which discusses the importance of the sun-god Re (also called Ra), one of the most important Egyptian gods, Dorman noted.

Some spells appear more frequently in copies of the 'Book of the Dead' than others, and some were considered almost essential. A section of the 'Book of the Dead.' Here we see judgment of the dead, with the weighing of the heart ritual.

Conjure one center of the sun