Chris Tedder Wrote:
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> Hi MJ,
>
> MJ: "Excuse my ignorance but would an antechamber
> proper normally have been used to represent the
> Duat or Akhet?"
>
>
> The idea of the sarcophagus chamber representing
> the Duat and the antechamber the Akhet, comes from
> Allen's interpretation of the PTs in relation to
> the architecture.

Thanks for your response, Chris. Most helpful (as usual ).
Just one thing I need to check - with apologies if I'm being over cautious (I'm afraid I find Egyptian religion and mythology with their myriad of strange names rather difficult to follow).
Is "Duat" and "Akhet" the same as "Dwat" and "Akh"?

> Khufu's pyramid has no antechamber connected to
> the sarcophagus chamber, but the name of his
> pyramid was 'Akhet Khufu' which means the whole
> superstructure of his pyramid may have been his
> Akhet, and he had the small enigmatic shafts
> leaving the sarcophagus chamber - model
> passageways through the superstructure. If the
> sarcophagus chamber corresponded to the Duat
> already in Khufu's time, then he left the Duat and
> ascended through the Akhet by way of the shafts.

I have a few questions to ask and comments to make about this but as they take us farther away from the subject matter of this thread I'll leave them unasked for now and wait for a more appropiate thread to come along.

Regards,

MJ