The magical texts were an important part of the scientific texts in Egypt The Egyptian writer used different materials to record them such as papyrus, oestraca, stone paintings and statues.

Egyptian scientists used the classification of ancient Egyptian texts to Literary texts, funerary texts, magic texts, and so on.
But sometimes it mixed up with them, and there was a mistake Category.

For example, the story of "The Seas That Crashed His Boat" is usually classified as a literary text
While it is a story that contains magical aqua.

The coffins are usually classified as funerary texts, though they are In some parts contains magical texts, especially the book of the two ways Which was placed on some coffins of the central state and provided the deceased With the information he needs to get through the world of tools He described it as two roads, one waterway and the other the land road.
And between them is a river of fire.

The Book of Hours was one of the magical books and contained Akwada The magic of the priests at night and day to address beings
The divine.

They describe the "Bremner-Rhynd Papyrus"
The conflict between "Ra" and the water snake Apophis, which symbolizes the forces Chaos and darkness in the universe, and contains a sacred text about The qualities of the Creator God, and how he created creatures and brought them to existence Before there was land, sun, and stars, it all came By divine will through the heart. Everything came from the one, when He came out of the waters of eternity and stood on the everlasting hill.

Humans (remetj) were created from the tears of Ra when he wept while The Universe came out for the first time.

The Metternich is the most famous magic text in ancient Egypt It dates back to the 4th century BC and tells about the healing of the child Horus (Horus) after being bitten alive when his mother hid him in Isis The Delta Marsh from his uncle's uncle six.

The Horus painting depicts a child with a crocodile foot (symbol of death) And holds in both hands the scorpions and scorpions.
The painting describes the role of Isis as a goddess of magic.

Isis looked for the one who would save her son, and she could not find anyone who could The inhabitants of the Delta, no one had the magic code that holds Healing energy. 
Isis carried her son in her hands and screamed The sky and its reputation were created by divine beings. Isis screamed The divine beings to help them. If Horus died, the light would be gone Of this world. 

The divine beings answered and ordered the poison to come out From the body of Horus, and he was cleansed of his sack.

One of the most famous magic texts is also the statue of the magician " Gate gate of the Atrib temple, found in 1918, and displays Currently in the Egyptian Museum.

The statue dates back to the Late Period and is completely covered with texts Magic was intended for treatment of snake bites and scorpions The picture of Horus is a child who takes crocodiles and holds them in his hands Scorpions and scorpions. 
The statue was used in therapeutic rituals So that the water pours over the statue and congregates like a basin in front of it And after the water acquires the power of the words engraved above it is provided to the patient To drink it and then healed from bite live or scorpion.

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