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Mysteries of Ancient Egypt with Dr. Kara Cooney

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Amduat in the Book of Gates

There's a whole lot of visual imagery that shows dead being repeatedly decapitated. It is interesting to me how much of this stuff had an influence in Christianity later. There are Greeks who are people writing in Greek for parsing it through their cultural nuts. I heard something about like, yeah, be weighed at your other wife. Or something like that. The feather of truth, your heart's on the other side of the feathers on the other. You know, pass and they'll never show this text.

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