
Episode 4: Divine Judgment (The Book of the Dead)
Literature and History
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The Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead was a miscellaneous, non-standard group of these spells or chapters. The bulk of which were believed to have been written by the scribal god Thoth. We don't have time to go through all 192 chapters of ancient Egypt's most famous text. Even if we did, I think you might find its repetitiousness less than riveting and its polytheism impenetrable.
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