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Key Details
Type
LakeMythology
Egyptian Pantheon
Coordinates
25.7°N, 32.6°E
About This Location
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.
Primary Sources
“The Lake of Fire: the unjust are fallen into it, but the justified live on the offerings of Re.”
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