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The API serves The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Peter Le Page Renouf and Édouard Naville, 1904) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. Spells for the journey of the dead, written in tombs and on papyri. It has 1,907 passages in 169 chapters. No key and no account.

Get a passage

The slug book-of-the-dead, the id book-of-the-dead-renouf-1904, and the prefix bd all name this text.

References

Chapter (spell) and paragraph, BD 125.3. The paragraph numbers are ours. GET /scriptures/book-of-the-dead lists every chapter with its first and last reference.
Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/book-of-the-dead/125.3/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

  • Text: The Egyptian Book of the Dead, translated by Peter Le Page Renouf and Édouard Naville (1904)
  • Source: www.gutenberg.org
  • License: Public domain in the United States
  • Notes: Chapter and paragraph (BD 125.3): the chapter numbers are Lepsius’s, as printed; the paragraphs are numbered in order. A chapter with a letter (30A, 30B) shares the number of its chapter. Renouf translated chapters 1 to 139, Naville 140 to 186. The chapters that are only a picture, a repeat of another chapter, or the editor’s description have no passages.