The Ethiopian Book of Life

Lefafa Sedek, translated as The Bandlet of Righteousness, has often been called The Ethiopic Book of The Dead, but from the Ethiopian perspective it is called The Ethiopic Book of Life. The possession of this Bandlet ensured the soul's acquittal in the Judgment, and therefore escape the eternal torments in the River of Fire. In fact the Lefafa Sedek contains an abbreviated form of all the essential elements found in the Egyptian Book of The Dead, which describes in detail the journey of the soul after death.