The Book of Gates (Part 1).
In the dark of the night, Ra took a journey through the Duat (underworld). His voyage was fraught with danger, but he also made many friends along the way. In the Book of Gates, the sun god takes a mysterious but meaningful journey…
Note: This is Part 1. Part 2 will release next week. After both are released, I will also upload a combined version, for those who want the story uninterrupted.
- Date: c.1305 BCE (first recorded appearance).
- Source: KV57, the tomb of Horemheb, and others.
- Music intro: Jeffrey Goodman.
- Music interludes: Cover versions by Luke Chaos.
- Music outro: Ancient Lyric.
- IMAGES of the Book of Gates, in the royal tomb of Horemheb, at Theban Mapping Project.
- TRANSLATIONS of the Book of Gates by Erik Hornung (2014) and John Darnell & Colleen Manassa Darnell (2018).
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Ra, on his barque, enters the Duat (Hornung 1971).
One of the 12 Gates in the Duat (Darnell and Manassa Darnell 2018).
The “Hour Goddesses” (Dominic Perry, 2022).
Ra’s barque enters a new hour (Dominic Perry 2022).
The “peoples of humanity” from the 5th Hour (Public Domain).
The Judgement Hall in Horemheb’s tomb (Hornung 1971).
Priests
Ashley Welch
Martha Gill
Steven Feurer
Nidden
Kyla
Evan A
Kendra Jones
Andy & Chelsea Lientz
Meicost Ettal
Jolle Kirpensteijn
TJ Kahn
Terri Jones
Linda Yancey
Hereditary Nobles
Joel Hadary
Brian K Barnes
Joseph Stashkevetch
Thothotep
Misty Bastian
Grace Devery
Bethany Killian
TV Liew
Eddie, Ezma, And Russo Are Law Dogs But Not Legal Beagles
Rae Knowler
Jenny Granum
Joseph Snow
Dallas Robinson
Ronald Hall
Pat Remler
Rodney Shuff
Dr. A.J. Zwagerman
Karen
William Tracy
Andrew Flaherty
Anders Hegvik
Rabia Altaf
Shawn Knight
William Russell
David Pepper
Inkymonkey
Karin W.
James Waters
Stephen King
Jan Dodoo
Kate Potter
Peter Culicover
Katherine Lewis
Pernille Engberg
Simone
RA EGYPTIAN
Elna Nilsson
Skip Howard
Eric J Holmes
Sandi & Stuart
Chrissi Ross
Bibliography
- J. Assmann, Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom: Re, Amun and the Crisis of Polytheism (1995).
- C. Carrier, Grands Livres Funéraires de l’Égypte Pharaonique (2009).
- J. C. Darnell and C. Manassa Darnell, The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books (2018).
- E. Hornung, Das Grab des Haremhab im Tal der Könige (1971).
- E. Hornung, Das Buch von den Pforten des Jenseits, I (1979).
- E. Hornung, Das Buch von den Pforten des Jenseits, II (1984).
- E. Hornung, The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife (1999).
- E. Hornung, The Egyptian Book of Gates, trans. T. Abt (2014).
- C. Manassa, ‘The Judgement Hall of Osiris in the Book of Gates’, Revue d’Égyptologie 57 (2006), 109—150.
- J. Roberson, ‘The Royal Funerary Books: The Subject Matter of Scenes and Texts’, in R. H. Wilkinson and K. R. Weeks (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings (2016), 316–332.
- M. Smith, Following Osiris: Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four Millenia (2017).
- Theban Mapping Project, ‘KV 57 The Tomb of Horemheb’.
- Y. Volokhine, Le porc en Égypte ancienne (2014).
- J. Zandee, ‘The Book of Gates’, Liber Amicorum: Studies in Honor of Professor Dr. C.J. Bleeker (1969), 282–324.
