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Book of Caverns

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Book of Caverns, fourth division, beginning: guardian serpent; third division, scene 5: Osiris in shrine, surrounded by deities in caverns.
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New Kingdom religious text which describes the journey of the sun god Ra through the six caverns of the Netherworld. The focus of this composition lays on the rewards and punishments in afterlife.