• The Egyptian Book of the Dead

• Dead body becomes god. A104.2
• God of the living and the dead in the otherworld. A108
• God of the dead. A108.1
• Gods are spirits of deified dead. A117.5
• House of god with pillars made of dead chief's bones. A151.4.4
• Deity buries dead mortal. A185.4
• God of the world of the dead. A310
• Goddess of world of the dead. A310.1
• Conductor of the dead. A311
• Tree in hell made of living heads of the dead. A671.2.3
• In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits. A678
• Sun's night journey: in land of dead. A722.3
• Gods create the earth from their dead victim's blood and bones. A831.8
• Origin of the Dead Sea. A920.1.15
• Origin of minerals from body of dead culture hero. A978.1
• Thunder the drums of dead. A1142.9.1
• Mankind from bones of dead brought from underworld. A1232.1
• God of world of the dead demands that men die so he will have subjects. (Cf. A487) A1335.11
• Origin of light: souls of dead in heaven. A1412.2
• First money received from kettle which two dead men try in vain to carry from hell to heaven. A1433.0.1

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• The Epic of Gilgamish · Tablet XII GILGAMISH, IN DESPAIR, ENQUIRES OF THE DEAD.

• ATU 1139 Carrying a Sham-Dead Person (previously The Ogre Carries the Sham-Dead Man)
• ATU 113A Pan Is Dead (previously King of the Cats Is Dead)
• ATU 1313 The Man who Wanted to Commit Suicide (previously The Man who Thought Himself Dead)
• ATU 1313C* Not Yet Dead
• ATU 1314 Mistaking Harmless Objects for Dangerous Ones (previously The Buttercask Taken for a Dead Man)
• ATU 1354C* Seemingly-Dead Woman Returns to Life
• ATU 1711* The Brave Shoemaker (previously A Woodcutter does not Fear the Dead)
• ATU 1833E God Is Dead (previously God Died for You)
• ATU 285A The Man and the Wounded Snake (previously The Dead Child and the Snake's Tail)
• ATU 33 The Fox Plays Dead and Is Thrown out of the Pit and Escapes