Dr. Yekaterina Barbash
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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But it's not just the question of navigating the geography, the topography, because each gate has a guardian.
And Books of the Dead, the Book of the Dead of Ankmer, where, as usual, depicts every gate and its guardian.
And then the text explains that as you come up to each gate,
You should say, I know you.
I know your name.
I know the name of the God guarding you.
And then the names of each gate and the guardian are listed.
And that is the only way to pass.
And I...
I'm particularly partial to the gate spells because it reveals so much about the value of knowledge and the value of being able to, I think it's a quite deep thought, the value of being able to name an object or a person in a way gives you power over them.
No, they are definitely divinities, deities.
I suppose you can call them demons in the sense of
like a minor deity.
Right.
Yeah.
For instance, one combination of hippo and lion guardian is named the one with his mouth wide open.
Well, probably protection of the body.
So the body, the mummified body is a vessel to which the person's spirit can come back when they're on earth as the spirit could travel between the worlds.
And so protection of the body was very important in terms of keeping the body intact and
I suppose those spells do have to do with embalming, but also protecting from crocodiles and scorpions and snakes and their wonderful little scenes in the papyrus of Achmer where next to those spells that represent a person spearing a crocodile or spearing an enormous bug, there are also texts that point
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