Duat

[mummy grunting] No.

The mummy dragged me off to Duat, the land of the dead.

This pyramid level is hard, trusty narrator.

I think I'll get a snack and try again later.

This was not merely a pleasant astronomical fact.

The sun god Ra was understood to make a journey through the night, traveling through the hidden world, often called the Duat, before being renewed at dawn.

So, from the Egyptian point of view, Sunset was not sun gone.

It was sun has entered the night shift.

The underworld.

When you go into the duat.

When Pharaoh Winnes travels cords of iron or a ladder of light to enter into the Duat, the celestial waters, or whether you're giving the Grim Reaper, paying the Grim Reaper to cross the river Styx, you're crossing into the rivers into the magnetosphere.

The plasma or the soul, the light body, crossing into the afterlife, into the celestial waters.

This is not mere fairy tales.

From the cavern of the oracle.

To the passage of Duat.

To the palace of thieves.

Now rise, all powers of the black arts.

They saw it as a border crossing, and the land on the other side of that border had a name.

The Duat.

This was the realm a soul entered right after death.

Not heaven, not final judgment, not the last stop.

And the fear dissolves because there was never anything separate from the person's own mind to be afraid of.

Sit with that for a moment, because it's a different kind of claim than anything we've covered so far.

Egypt described the Duat as a real external region a soul could get lost in.

India described the Lokas as territory populated by actual deities.

También creían en el Va, algo más parecido a lo que nosotros llamaríamos personalidad o alma, y que permanecía junto al cuerpo hasta que éste recibía un entierro apropiado.

Once buried, the base stopped and a journey began through the Duat, the underworld.

This was not simply an infernal kingdom.

era complejo, estaba dividido en niveles, lleno de puertas que debían atravesarse, hechizos que tenían que pronunciarse correctamente y pruebas que debían superarse.

describe rituals, spells, and enchantments intended to protect the Pharaoh in life after death and guarantee his resurrection.

The texts refer to the ascension of the Pharaoh to join Ra, the god of the sun, to his journey through the Duat, or underworld, and to his eternal existence among the gods.

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