If the Necronomicon the book of the dead just made up or is it mentioned in other texts? Have they found any?

Question

proof that it exists?

Answer 1

i doubt it but i like the question

Answer 2

Bingo, you found someone really well educated. The Necromicon (if you mean the one by Lovecraft) is not real, its fiction. There is an Egyptian "Book of the Dead" which was discovered in the texts carved on tomb walls in The Valley Of Kings. This is full of weird stuff about how to prepare corpses (like you have to break the jaw and put a spring inside the mouth) so they can live again when they have completed their journey to the place where "the rivers of earth and sky meet." The Egyptians believed that the River Nile mirrored the Milky Way and where the two met on the horizon was the place where our world and the overworld were joined. The Egyptian belief system gets very complex if we go beyond that.
Lovecraft is not a very good scholar of the ancient world because necromicon is Greek not Egyptian and means not "Book of the Dead" but something like "Book of Dead Names." (It doesn't translate exactly) Its still a good book though, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did years ago.

http://greenteeth.blog.co.uk/main

Answer 3

The "Necronomicon" is an entirely fictional creation by the author H.P. Lovecraft, as he stated many times. The books putative author, " Abdul Alhazred", was a name that Lovecraft invented for himself when a child & facinated by the Arabian Nights. Later on as his "Cthulhu Mythos" tales developed he used the name for the FICTIONAL author of the FICTIONAL book.
The various Necronomicons floating around out there are fun to read but the fact that people actually take them seriously merely proves the old saying "There's a sucker born every minute".

Answer 4

The Book of the Dead is a fictionalized version of Egyptian rituals.

The Egyptians never wrote a "Book of the Dead"; they merely had their traditions, many of which are documented in various places, and were the basis for the Book of the Dead.

It's historical fiction; and very few spells work anyway... so it's not that big a deal

Answer 5

I used to own it. The one you can buy at the book store is made up. I forget the story behind it but you can look it up on the web to find out the real story behind it.

I knew someone that once said that real versions exit but I think that is BS. Define "real" anyway. Even if there was once a book by that name or a simular work of a different name it's very doubtful that any of the spells worked. Unfortunately stuff like that only exits in movies and tales.

Answer 6

Here's one list of FAQ's:

http://www.digital-brilliance.com/necron/necron.htm

And here's the Wikipedia scoop:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon

Answer 7

I have seen a published book that was titled The
Necronomicon, but it certainly did not fit the
description of it given by H.P.Lovecraft. I have
often wondered myself whether the kind of book
he described really existed, but have concluded
that it was his invention. I have not read any
statement by him that said he invented it, but then
I haven't read anything he wrote except his stories.

Answer 8

for the love of god, before you touch it make sure you say "platuu verata nicktae" or the army of the dead will rise up and take over.

Answer 9

It IS imaginary, but talked about so often that the line between imaginary and historical has become blurred.

Answer 10

wasn't that from the 'Evil Dead' films?

Answer 11

My dad has the book.