Chris Tedder Wrote:
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> The AE afterlife was an idealized world ordered
> with mathematical precision - for example,
> the number 309 occurs in an ancient Egyptian 'The
> Book of what is in the Duat' - the Amduat - which
> describes the twelve hour journey of the sun
> through the Duat. During the second hour, the sun
> travels through the watery expanse called Wernes,
> and in the third hour through the Waters of
> Osiris. The part of the Duat covered in the
> second hour is 309 iteru (6180000 cubits or about
> 3236 km), and the part of the Duat covered in the
> third hour is also 309 iteru - why 309 iteru?
>
>



Fascinating stuff. It soulds like an agricultural paradise....a veritable Garden of Eden.

I started reading this the other day and got sidetracked.


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