The History of Egypt

175: The Ancient Egyptian Book of Gates (Part 1)

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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...

Details:

  • Date: c.1305 BCE (first recorded appearance).
  • Source: KV57, the tomb of Horemheb, and others.
  • Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
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  • Music intro: Jeffrey Goodman.
  • Music interludes: Cover versions by Luke Chaos.
  • Music outro: Ancient Lyric.
  • Logo image: Ra on his solar barque, from the tomb of Ramesses I (Photo by Dominic Perry, 2022).
  • TRANSLATIONS of the Book of Gates by Erik Hornung (2014) and John Darnell & Colleen Manassa Darnell (2018).


    • Select 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.

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