Dr. Campbell Price

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · Inside the Egyptian Underworld · 18 May 2026 podcast

But, but...

There is a very interesting reflection on this idea that is unusually explicit.

At the end of Pharaonic times, so into the time of the Ptolemies, leading up to Cleopatra, into the Roman period, the copy I'm thinking of is early Roman in date, there is a text that's part of a cycle of myths, but they're kind of historically informed myths, called Setna Kamwasa.

It's written in Demotic, so a very late form of the Egyptian script.

And in this, there's a precocious, magical little boy called Siosri who takes his dad into, briefly, temporarily, into the underworld and sees the judgment.

So given the date of this text, it may be influenced by Greek and Roman ideas of what goes on in the underworld.

So we can't maybe read it as absolutely...

of what an ancient Egyptian generally would believe, but there are some fascinating and really rather dark details where they go in and they see this kind of Tantalus-like situation where, I think it's Tantalus, where you have people weaving or plaiting rope.

only for the rope to be munched by a donkey.

So you are eternally making the rope.

Or they have food and drinks suspended above them and people are constantly digging at the sand under your feet.

So you are never going to reach the food.

So pretty grim.

They're a punishment.

sit there somewhere so those entities those people are undoubtedly not those blessed ones being lit up by the sun god when he goes through the underworld but there is one particular scene they see the judgment and it does seem to imply that some value is put on moral rectitude for a judgment at least at this period because there is a rich man with all of his stuff and a poor man with nothing

And the rich man just lived a bad life.

And so Osiris in judgment, sitting in judgment says, I'm taking the rich man's stuff and I'm giving it to the poor man.

So the poor man can enjoy the radiant sarcification.

And you know what happens to the rich man?

The donkey thing.

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