Egyptian funerary religion
Fields of Aalu
The deceased seeks a good allotment in Sechet-aalu. Water and enormous grain make these fields a perfected version of familiar agricultural life. The person need not perform every task personally: ushabti servants can answer the call to work. The landscape retains cultivation while removing scarcity and labor’s harshest demands.
Also known as Field of Reeds · Sechet-aalu
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In the sources
Principal account
TraditionalThe deceased seeks a good allotment in Sechet-aalu. Water and enormous grain make these fields a perfected version of familiar agricultural life.
Further detail
TraditionalThe person need not perform every task personally: ushabti servants can answer the call to work. The landscape retains cultivation while removing scarcity and labor’s harshest demands.
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
chapter the deceased prays for a "good allotment in the Sechet-aalu." * The cultivation of this allotment was entrusted to his care, but it entailedOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 68
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0068
- Original scan leaf
- 78
- Recorded leaf number
- 68
- Current Reader position
- 62
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Source 2
The Book of the Dead
tomb with him were numbers of Ushabti or answerers, his servants always at his beck and call, bound to do his work forOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 69
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0069
- Original scan leaf
- 79
- Recorded leaf number
- 69
- Current Reader position
- 63
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Continue exploring
Tuat
The Egyptian otherworld in Tirard’s account, accommodating agricultural abundance, solar journeys and the deceased’s hope for bodily wholeness.
Shared source pageUshabti
Small funerary figures that answer the deceased person’s summons to work.
Same subject and traditionAmenta
The Hidden Land divided into domains of posthumous life.