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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy

Note 5 — BOOK OF THE DEAD

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The suppliant has made a wax figure of Apepi, and, by sympathetic magic, imagines that by burning it he is destroying the power of the original. Such wax figures of the gods made for magical purposes were generally illegal.

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