82: The Amduat (Underworld of the Pharaohs)
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Interlude: A Royal Journey Through the Underworld
Rulers of the 18th Dynasty decorated their tombs with lavish images of the underworld, which we know as the Duat. These scenes, and texts, reveal a complex story of Re's journey beneath the western horizon, through the nether, and ultimately into a cosmic re-birth. Along the way he crossed waters and deserts, faced demons and monsters, and even met with his own corpse...
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Interlude: A Royal Journey Through the Underworld. Rulers of the 18th Dynasty decorated their tombs with lavish images of the underworld, which we know as the Duat. These scenes, and texts, reveal a complex story of Re's journey beneath the western horizon, through the nether, and ultimately into a cosmic re-birth. Along the way he crossed waters and deserts, faced demons and monsters, and even met with his own corpse...
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Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.
Select Bibliography:
Darnell, J. C., & Manassa Darnell, C. (2018). The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books.
Hornung, E., & Abt, T. (2010). The Egyptian Amduat: The Book of the Hidden Chamber (D. Warburton, Trans.; Revised).
Richter, B. A. (2008). The Amduat and Its Relationship to the Architecture of Early 18th Dynasty Royal Burial Chambers. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 44, 73–104. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27801622
Roberson, J. A. (2016). The Royal Funerary Books: The Subject Matter of Scenes and Texts. In K. R. Weeks & R. H. Wilkinson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings (pp. 316--332). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199931637.013.021
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