The Book of the Dead is an Egyptian sacred text. It consists of a collection of religious-magical formulas that were intended to protect the deceased and help him on his journey to the afterlife, which is considered fraught with pitfalls and difficulties.
Generally, they are formulas and stories focused on the nocturnal journey of the sun god (in its various manifestations) and his struggle with the evil forces (including the serpent Apophis, which according to Egyptian mythology was the representation of the dark and Chaos and was represented in the guise of a cobra) that attempt, at night, to stop him not to resurrect it in the morning.
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