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Journey Through the Duat

Through the realms with Ra

Journey Through the Duat

Follow the sun god's night barque into the Duat and the path the justified dead hoped to share: through guarded gates, to the weighing of the heart before Osiris, and on to the Field of Reeds. The stops combine the New Kingdom underworld books with the Book of the Dead; they are a composite route, not the itinerary of a single text.

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The route

These realms belong to the mythic cosmos, not an earthly map, so the route is shown in order instead of as pins.

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Stop 1 of 6

The Western Horizon

Where the sun sets and enters the Duat each evening; the dead, too, are 'westerners' who go to this horizon.

Events

Sunset and the descent into the Duat

Gods involved

Ra

Read about The Western Horizon
About this journey

By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. . Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.

Routes follow the named source; other tellings order or place the stops differently.