
Episode 4: Divine Judgment (The Book of the Dead)
Literature and History
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May My Eyebrows Live Forever
A supplicant in chapter 154 of the book of the dead earnestly prays that after he dies, quote, my eyebrows shall not be shaved off and no baleful injury shall come upon me. I got to thinking about how funny that is, the notion of hoping that one's eyebrows will exist for all time. And I wondered what it would sound like if a modern Christian rock group wrote a tune praying for the longevity of their eyebrows. May My Eyebrows Live Forever. See you next time for episode 5, Beneath the Obelisks.
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