Dr. Yekaterina Barbash

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The Ancients · Egypt's Book of the Dead · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

place the deceased into the community of other deities.

And I suppose one important type of text that we haven't touched on at all are the sun hymns.

So they usually appear early on in that seite recension in the later sequence when everything is systematized.

And they bring that solar aspect, the solar cycle into the Book of the Dead because it's so important to the Egyptian conception of the afterlife and rebirth.

Actually, I don't really like the word rebirth because it presumes being reborn into the same place you were.

But that's not what's going on in ancient Egypt.

You became transfigured into a different realm.

Not really.

I would say the whole document

The document as a whole was that congratulations.

We're assuming that you've made it.

It's now written in the document and the entire process is documented.

And because the Egyptians believed that sort of text recitation, but also writing of text has some power, has a sort of magical power.

way of making things come true.

The mere existence of a Book of the Dead is yet another fail-safe.

If someone forgot to read the ritual, you would have it in writing, and it could perpetually repeat that transfiguration of your spirit.

Absolutely.

And gilding just takes that status to the extreme.

We have some ideas.

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