Budge, Ernest A. Wallis [Bearb.]: The book of the dead: the Papyrus Ani in the British Museum ; the Egyptian text with interlinear transliteration and translation, a running translation, introd. etc. ([Text]) (London, 1895)

THE PRINCIPAL GEOGRAPHICAL
AND MYTHOLOGICAL PLACES IN THE
BOOK OL THE DEAD.

Abtu, ^ Jj, the Abydos of the Greeks (Strabo, XVII., i., 42), the
capital of the eighth nome of Upper Egypt. It was the seat of the worship of
Osiris. and from this fact was called Per-Ausar or Busiris, “ the house of

Osiris ” ; the Copts gave it the name e&urr.1 Egyptian tradition made the sun
to end his daily course at Abydos, and to enter into the Tuat at this place

through a “gap” in the mountains called in Egyptian peq, J'T'""©-2 These
mountains lay near to the town ; and in the Xllth dynasty it was believed that
the souls of the dead made their way into the other world by the valley which
led through them to the great Oasis, where some placed the Elysian Fields.3

Amenta or Amentet, or was originally the place where the

sun set, but subsequently the name was applied to the cemeteries and tombs which
were usually built or hewn in the stony plateaus and mountains on the western
bank of the Nile. Some believe that Amenta was, at first, the name of a small
district, without either funereal or mythological signification. The Christian
Egyptians or Copts used the word Amenti to translate the Greek word Hades,
to which they attributed all the ideas which their heathen ancestors had associated
with the Amenta of the Book of the Dead.

Annu, l^, the Heliopolis of the Greeks (Herodotus, II., 3, 7, 8, 9, 59, 93;
Strabo, XVII., 1, 27 ff.), and the capital of the thirteenth nome of Lower Egypt.

1 See Amelineau, La Geographie de i’itgypte a VPpoque Copte, p. 155.

2 See Brugsch, Dict. Geog., p. 227.

•! See Maspero, Pitiides de Mythologie, t. i., p. 345.