Th. Abt / E. Hornung

The Egyptian Amduat – The Book of the Hidden Chamber

Translated by David Warburton

444 pages, hardbound, Bibliography, Index and Glossary, ISBN 3-9522608-4-3 / 978-3-9522608-4-5, LivingHumanHeritage

Egyptian hieroglyphs, hieratic transcription and English.

200 color images of the Amduat found in the tomb of Thutmosis III in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor/Thebes.

In the Amduat, the night-journey of the Egyptian Sungod is divided into twelve hours, each of them containing an enormous amount of insight into the human psyche.
The entire Amduat could be called the first “scientific publication” of humankind describing or mapping the dangers, but also the regenerative capabilities of the night-world, providing answers to basic human questions.
The synopsis of the different scenes of the Amduat, all in color, together with its explaining text, is unique.
This book is a treasure for all those who want to explore the archetypal structure of the objective psyche, with its helpful but also with its dangerous forces.

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Theodor Abt (1947), born in Zurich, Switzerland; Ph.D. from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich 1977, 1973-79 project leader of overall regional development concepts for two Swiss mountain regions. Since 1975 Jungian Analyst in private practice. 1983-88 member of the board of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. Since 1990 Professor for Rural Sociology at the ETH. Since 1995, member of the board of the Research and Training Centre for Depthpsychology according to C.G. Jung and M.-L. von Franz, Zurich. Since 1988, President of the Society of the Friends of the Royal Tombs of Egypt. His research focuses on the relationship of the outer world with the needs of the inner unconscious world. Together wird Wilferd Madelung he is editor of the Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum (CALA) series. Of his publications in German is available in English: Progress without Loss of Soul, 1990 and Dark Clouds over Europe, 2014. Erik Hornung (1933), born in Riga, Latvia, Ph.D. Univ. of Tubingen 1956, Professor of Egyptology Univ. of Basle, Switzerland, 1967-1998. His research has focused on the Valley of the Kings and the edition of the Books of the Netherworid; he published the first edition of the Amduat in 1963. Since 1988 Vice-President of the Society of the Friends of the Royal Tombs of Egypt. Of his many books in German, several have been translated into English: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt. The One and the Many, 1982 (Paperback 1996); The Valley of the Kings: Horizon of Eternity, 1990; The Tomb of Pharaoh Seti I., 1991; History of Ancient Egypt. An Introduction, 1999; Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, 1999; The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, 1999; The Secret Lore of Egypt, 2001.