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Lake of Fire
A lake of flame in the Egyptian underworld books and Book of the Dead, which destroys the enemies of the sun god and the unjust dead while refreshing the justified.
About Lake of Fire
A lake that unmakes the unjust
The Lake of Fire appears in Book of the Dead vignettes and in underworld books as a place that destroys enemies of Re and the unjust dead, while the justified may drink. It is not Dante. Ammit and knife-wielding demons work nearby. There is no excavated crater. The image is a warning painted beside the successful farmer in Aaru: the same cosmos has a disposal pit for those who fail the names and the scale.
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- Book of the Dead (fire-lake vignettes) / Amduat
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