That's part of my favourite chapter too actually. Chapter 15. It has all the best lines, and isn't too crammed with weird unintelligable references to italicised objects and weird gods who never crop up again.

Also - do you think I'm justified in thinking that the Book of the Dead is indeed a form of poetry? I would argue it is so - it is an elaborate, imaginative and inspiring piece of text that seeks to combine both material and immaterial worlds together within one body of text. The way it reads makes it fairly obvious to me that it's not just 'prose' or 'a story'.

What do you guys think?

You could say it is a form of poetry, yes. I personally have viewed it as just a collection of crazy stuff, but .. poetry sound better.

Besides, it doesn't have to rhyme to be poetic!