Egyptian funerary religion
Tuat
Tirard begins with the Tuat as a plentiful agricultural country where water is abundant. Later visions admit solar travel and more elaborate regions, so the future world is not reduced to one landscape. The deceased asks for bodily wholeness and rest in the Tuat. The same funerary collection supports different hopes and dangers rather than prescribing one identical journey for every person.
Also known as Duat
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In the sources
Principal account
TraditionalTirard begins with the Tuat as a plentiful agricultural country where water is abundant. Later visions admit solar travel and more elaborate regions, so the future world is not reduced to one landscape.
Further detail
TraditionalThe deceased asks for bodily wholeness and rest in the Tuat. The same funerary collection supports different hopes and dangers rather than prescribing one identical journey for every person.
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
58 THE BOOK OF THE DEAD The Tuat or other world as it appears to have been represented in the earliest tombs, seems to haveOpen 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
him towards the gate of eternity, grant him to rest in the Tuat ; that his flesh may be entire in the Nether-world ; that his soulOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 139
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0139
- Original scan leaf
- 149
- Recorded leaf number
- 139
- Current Reader position
- 131
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.