#the duat

[briefbestiary]

The Devourer of the Dead. She who sits idly near the scales, waiting until truth finds a heavy heart for her maw.

[krankittoeleven]

'Tober Prompt #4 - Life and Death

Assassin's Creed Origins/Curse of the Pharaohs DLC/The Duat

[demigodwitchdw]

Did anyone else notice that Marc and Steven are in the afterlife? Like, they're pretty obviously in the House of Rest. Tawaret showing up at the end of the episode just confirmed it.

I figured it out almost the MOMENT Marc woke up, "What, are they in some kind of Egyptian afterlife care home-OH WAIT THEY ARE"-literally me watching episode 4.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Realm of the Duat aka the Egyptian underworld. That explains the weird lamps and Taweret. Also, I like the reference that the Duat is only one of several possible afterlifes (such as the Astral Plane in Black Panther).

[blueiscoool]

The Book of The Dead

The Book of the Dead (Egyptian: 𓂋𓏤𓈒 𓏌𓏤 𓉐𓂋 𓏏𓂻 𓅓 𓉔𓂋 𓅱 𓇳𓏤 rw nw prt m hrw; Arabic: كتاب الموتى‎ Kitab al-Mawtaa) is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) to around 50 BCE. The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated rw nw prt m hrw,  is translated as Book of Coming Forth by Day or Book of Emerging Forth into the Light. "Book" is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife and written by many priests over a period of about 1,000 years.

The Book of the Dead, which was placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased, was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were painted onto objects, not written on papyrus. Some of the spells included in the book were drawn from these older works and date to the 3rd millennium BCE. Other spells were composed later in Egyptian history, dating to the Third Intermediate Period (11th to 7th centuries BCE). A number of the spells which make up the Book continued to be separately inscribed on tomb walls and sarcophagi, as the spells from which they originated always had been.

[doodleferp]

@h0rny-for-egyptians reminded me of the mythology rabbit hole that swallowed me in my youth so I've doodled a grumpy goodboi

there might be more who knows

[son-of-midnight]

Sadie and Carter are so awesome. They are legendary. They are equal to Percy and Annabeth in their travels. They all survived something no mortal should have. Ever. Literally the deepest pits of hell. Not even Apophis had been able to escape. The literal primordial embodiment of chaos could not break out. But Carter and Sadie survived and emerged. The chaos sickness was so well described, Rick. And the bittersweetness of them being so close but certain of death before being reborn. The entire TOFF book was aesthetic as FUCK. The diverted River Of Night. Amazing. The snake being buried in billions of beetles. Menshikov being kind of the victim. You had to feel for the guy at the end. Having yiur mind subjected to pure chaos would drive me... well, obviously, lol

[moonlightandmarble]

Unlikely Heroes Locations: The Duat

“Leave your body Leave this body now Your face can stay Upon this golden mask you made The brave in heart Can claim eternal life My scales of truth Will need sufficient proof Their balance depends On how your soul weights To walk with Gods The jaws of chaos you must pass Anubis My soul is so light And as this feather I can fly Anubis Don't let me wither and die”