Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard May 2026
last heard 18 Jun
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kind of amorphous shape is the thing, again, to strive towards.
And it's funny because in modern gothic horror recreations of the mummified dead, they tend to be quite dirty and shuffling and...
They're unravelling and falling to pieces.
They're all about corruption and decay and contagion.
Whereas the ancient Egyptian idea of this saakh, this one aspect of the person if you like, is that it's radiant, pure and it's impervious.
So that is the point you want to get to.
And this takes 70 days.
Right.
And once that time is done, if you're fairly well off, you can afford a coffin and a tomb, a space to put the coffin, maybe with some grave goods.
But before you go into the grave, your mouth is ritually opened to restore your senses.
So this ritual of the opening of the mouth is really pretty pivotal to start you on your afterlife existence.
Exactly.
So this is a notion, a concept, that actually we only know for a relatively restricted period of time, which is slightly annoying.
So we can extrapolate it to an extent to other periods,
But when we're talking about the duat and what is in the duat and journeying through the duat, we're talking about kings from maybe 1400 BCE on for a few centuries.
And maybe the belief kind of echoes down time, but it doesn't seem necessarily to be something that absolutely everybody does today.
Maybe they hope to.
Maybe the non-elites hope to do this.
But you're right.
The duat, and you used the word at the top of the episode, is the underworld.
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