The Book of Opening the Mouth: Vol. I (Routledge Revivals): The Egyptian Texts with English Translations - Routledge Revivals 1st edition

This is the first volume of The Book of Opening the Mouth, first published in 1909, which is edited from three copies written in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-sixth Dynasties respectively. It is believed they describe faithfully the forms of the rites which originated among the indigenous inhabitants of the Nile Valley.