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A Journey through the Beyond - The Development of the Concept of Duat and Related Cosmological Notions in Egyptian Funerary Literature (Hardcover)
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A Journey through the Beyond - The Development of the Concept of Duat and Related Cosmological Notions in Egyptian Funerary Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Material and Visual Culture of Ancient Egypt
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This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the
evolution over time of a foundational concept of the Egyptian
afterlife beliefs: the Duat, or netherworld. The Duat is a
complicated, multifaceted notion, which was never canonized into a
single version of the beyond, but offered instead a variety of
alternatives attempting to describe the metaphysical realms beyond
the visible world, and beyond life. Theological speculations gave
rise to a rich textual and visual repertoire, which underwent a
process of evolution over thousands of years, during which newer
ideas and images were constantly introduced. The book provides
analysis of royal and non-royal funerary texts from the late Old
Kingdom to the end of the New Kingdom, tracing the development of
the conceptualization of the notion of Duat, outlining what it
encompassed and where it was imagined to be located. In addition to
the translation and discussion of the most significant passages of
the texts analysed, each chapter also provides an overview of the
individual compositions and of the relevant theological,
cosmological and astronomical notions complementing the conceptual
framework, of which the Duat formed but a part. Additionally,
discussions of concurrent changes in Egyptian culture, society and
ideology are included in order to clarify the context in which
afterlife beliefs and related texts evolved. An analysis of the
correlation between funerary compositions and their material
supports complements the study, emphasizing the Egyptians' belief
in a magical synergy between texts, images, and their contexts in
the activation of a suitable, effective afterlife for the
recipients of the texts.
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