Egyptian funerary religion
Amenta
Tirard explains Amenta as the Hidden Land, a name she associates with earlier texts. It belongs to the vocabulary of the deceased person’s future abode. Chapter 149 describes fourteen domains, including cultivated fields, the glorious ones, a high mountain, and waters. Privileges and sustenance differ across these enclosed spaces.
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Principal account
TraditionalTirard explains Amenta as the Hidden Land, a name she associates with earlier texts. It belongs to the vocabulary of the deceased person’s future abode.
Further detail
TraditionalChapter 149 describes fourteen domains, including cultivated fields, the glorious ones, a high mountain, and waters. Privileges and sustenance differ across these enclosed spaces.
Context & interpretation
Tirard’s 1910 account interprets selected funerary texts and rituals through the scholarship of her period. Local cults and surviving manuscripts vary; her comparisons and proposed origins are not a modern Egyptological consensus.
Original passages
Source 1
The Book of the Dead
the earlier copies the word "Amenta/' "the Hidden Land," is used instead of " the Land of Life." The 17th chapter is oneOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 78
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- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0078
- Original scan leaf
- 88
- Recorded leaf number
- 78
- Current Reader position
- 72
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Source 2
The Book of the Dead
very interesting one ; it enumerates the fourteen domains of Amenta, the Hidden Land, beginning with a description of the gardens of Aalu in almostOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 90
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0090
- Original scan leaf
- 100
- Recorded leaf number
- 90
- Current Reader position
- 83
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
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Khu
The luminous aspect of the deceased in Tirard’s account, associated with radiance and the company of the glorified dead.
Same subject and traditionFields of Aalu
Abundant afterlife fields where agriculture continues without its earthly hazards.
Same subject and traditionTuat
The Egyptian otherworld in Tirard’s account, accommodating agricultural abundance, solar journeys and the deceased’s hope for bodily wholeness.