As one who has been rethinking reality for the past five years, this topic has come up and this channel, @tomb of el-lumination, has delved into the BOTD as a way to decode our electro-magnetic realm. The ancients knew the sky and the body were inextricably linked and they drew pictures of it.
The oldest book was written in 2600 before the third or fourth century when Sefir Yetzirah was written? Which was the First? (Thank You. Really Enjoy your content. Thank You🙏🏼
Egypt is such a great testament to how a culture can exist and dominate for thousands of years in some form but then one day it's so gone that we don't even know how to read anything they wrote down.
Someone writes boilerplate ritual on papyrus. 300 years later, tired scribe fails to change “insert name here” to “King Unas” on tomb wall. 4000 years later, Sledge points it out in a UA-cam video. Sledge says, “Whoops.” 4 months later, random former contract attorney hears this and laughs hysterically in shower at familiar blunder, then gives Sledge $10 in gratitude, heartily encouraging VR concept. VR concept eventually comes to fruition, activating secret unwritten portion of pyramid text’s underlying ritual technology. Akhification ensues. King Unas stoked.
Imagine missing out on divine immortality because some lowly plebian forgot to chisel your name into the eternal prayer adorning the wall of your tomb.
@@TheEsotericaChannelI'm sure Osiris would understand and pardon a clerical error, hired help is historically so hard to find particularly if they are family.
yes, and the image of the blood red sun being birthed is also obviously a gendered image, that is to say that the idea of a female, giving birth to the sun feels like a reflection of a more woman centered civilization. Or am I assuming too much?
Dear@@DorothyPotterSnyder in the spanish language "Dar a luz" means "giving birth", and we all know that's your (the women's) monopoly. Greetings from Mexico City.
@@DorothyPotterSnyder Taking it too far, bringing forth life is obviously something that would be attributed to women. The difference here is that they actually treated their women better than later cultures. This is a society that has written records of men taking days off of work to care for their wives and daughters going through menstruation.
Wow this was such a great video. I didn't really get how the Egyptians influenced so much of our concept of the soul in the West. Pretty cool stuff! All those Greeks going to Egypt sound like people going to burning man lol.
This brings back memories! The ancient Egyptian civilization was the first to spark my interest in ancient beliefs and writings. I even tried to do a list of all the hieroglyphs I could find, and that s no small feat for a 10 year old with no internet, just books.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉.......keep up the grand study.....for what one unleash on the earth 🌎............... 👏 you also unleash in heaven!! Your finding are connections to other biblical books 📚 ✨️......keep up the great work!! Or Once one ask The Most High to help bridge 🌉 the gaps yell see the Puzzle!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Eternal life was not discovered by the Egyptian it was stolen and everything is a trick to steal there way into eternal life or download into a new body but swaping with me will put a dent in ya hole species is it that hard to see that something else choose what u did just cause u did but as u asked the mom witch and made a deal Thay asked me and I said yes .
'Life, Prosperity and Health' to you too Dr Sledge. This was an excellent presentation of a very challenging collection of concepts from an era far, far removed from ours. I've been an amateur Egyptologist for over forty years and I'm still learning. In a discussion once I remember telling an elderly Christian friend of mine about the famous 'Cannibal Hymn' from The Pyramid Texts where Unas ritually slaughters, cooks and eats the bodies and the spirits of the gods. "Oh, like the eucharist...", was her surprised reaction. Excellent episode, Many thanks.
Christianity is basically Egyptian mystery school blended with Mithraism, Dionysius Cult, Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Judaism. Basically a cult centered around Alexander’s Empire and the bloodline of Julius Caesar.
I never realized there was so much for the dead person to do and super interesting how they thought of the spirit as participating in the ceremony so literally, always thought you got to lay back and your freshly sacrificed servants would just get on with feeding you grapes
Thanks! Would you do a side by side comparison of the Egyptian and Tibetan books "of the dead"? Looking for shared or similar themes, differences, etc. Or do you know of a good one?
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉........I see 👀 the connection and why one would ask!! The Tibetan Scripture had more lower case Gods......The only I dis like is that you have to have a great working ear 👂 and Intuition to put God's of Egypt campaire too God's of Tibetan ..........key hint though: in the book 📖 OAHSPE it speaks of Lower case God's and Goddesses 🎉🎉🎉 and the many regions their assigned to!! Both Negative God's and Positive God's!! 🎉🎉🎉💔🌊❤️🩹❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎❤️🔥 amazing 👏 question!!
What a fantastic video. I'm watching more and more of this channel every day. I'm not a scholar, just an average bloke who barely scraped through year 12 in high school but Dr. Sledge makes these videos so accessible, interesting and straightforward (as much as anyone possibly could, considering the themes). We appreciate all the hard work you do Dr. Sledge, you are one of the most genuine people to ever grace this platform. 🙏🤯
What's wild to me is that when the Old Kingdom pyramids were being built, wooly mammoths were still hanging on at Wrangell Island. Just goes to show how ancient they really are.
@@steviechampagnewhat inspires you to say that? and what's your evidence to back up that? Not trying to defunk you, I just want to hear your point of view.
Evidence of erosion from years of saltwater submersion (Great Flood) suggests the Egyptian pyramids are about 12,000 years old. Also, the perfect alignment they have with Orion at that particular time span
How marvellously you present your knowledge on this most mystical civilisation! I so appreciate it because you take CARE not to make assumptions and are well researched. Too many are capitalising on cheap clickbait videos without much evidence. Thank you very much Sir.
Fantastic! I also love the imagery of the bloody birth of the sun. The artwork is beautiful. I would so love to literally see the world through the eyes of old civilizations, to really see the physical world without the intermediaries of screens.
I’ve always been more interested in Greek and Roman mythology than Egyptian, but wow, the way you describe the story of the sun’s daily rebirth and how the rituals of the tomb (forgive me) mirror that celestial rebirth, explaining the seemingly cryptic name of ‘The Book of Coming Forth by Day’… truly inspiring, you really convey how amazing these rituals are.
This is so amazing. You successfully explained to us what was probably the most sacred of ancient Egypt rituals with great care and respect for the ancient civilization. This was what the ancient Egyptians lived for!
Excellent video. Thank you very much for this. I learned a lot here. That imagery of the ritual and cosmic birthing is especially beautiful. Here's a ritual comment spell to speed your video along the path of the UA-cam algorithm into internet immortality. (UA-cam's logo is red-that can't be a coincidence!) Thanks also for dispelling from my mind this popular notion of the Egyptians as a culture obsessed with death. However, I'm a bit disappointed there weren't any Stargate or ancient spaceship jokes when talking about the pyramids as conduits for launching the recently deceased into the stars. (Or maybe there were, and I just missed them.) Not that your jokes weren't still very funny, per usual. Your humor is always on point. Thank you again. Your lectures I do believe are some of the best, if not the best, material on UA-cam, period.
We visited the Chicago Field Museum and saw the reconstruction of Unas' tomb! It's like walking into a pyramid's chambers on the first floor and you descend further into the exhibit seeing tomb goods until you exit in the Egyptian collection on the 2nd floor. It's really wonderful, and now I have a visual of the king's pyramid to identify him with today. I had no idea it was that ruined until now.
I also was recently there and your right. They did a great job with that exhibit. I never knew there was such an awesome exhibit in a museum in America
Truly fascinating. This was one of my favorite episodes. Thanks for the book recommendation on the subject. It's also interesting how even though you go deep into these various topics, each one feels like it's just scratching the surface of an enormous amount of knowledge.
Well, thank you. Your lessons are worth far more than I send, so you have my eternal gratitude. I guess I have been interested in the origins of religion since I first learned about Mesopotamia and Egypt in the…. third grade? In my adult life I think I have been on a search, walking backwards through where the beliefs I was taught came from, and you have brought me all the way back to the Egyptians, again. I came here because, alchemy. Staying because of surprises like this. You said somewhere that it was good for the brain to have a sense of wonder, and I think the wonder you bring back into my life is kinda keeping me in it. Thanks!
Thank you for a very exciting, IMMORTAL episode. Something caught my ears about the Sea of Reeds. I am actually suprised some astral archeologist hasn't noticed the connection between the Sea of Reeds and the Moses story. Anyway keep up the good work!
Divine blessings brother Absolute i to have passed through the Ancient Egyptian consecration, and been reborn in mind rejoining the One ,hence knowing myself , and why im here ,and where im going ,and knowing all futures of soul ❤
Dr Sledge thank you for another amazing video! You are an amazing teacher, your videos and the way you articulate the content makes learning easy and fun. I think I've learned more from watching your videos then I did during the entire time I was in highschool . Your an amazing, amazing teacher, your students are so lucky to have an opportunity to learn from such an amazing and talented professor such as your self.
Oops, you did it again! Another informative, entertaining, episode. The description of the tunnel as a kind of birth canal and the birth fluids as the red of dawn reminded me of how terms like rosy fingered dawn appear over and over again in the Homeric epics. Thank you and g'mar chatima tovah.
A civilization that extends immortality technology to all its citizens is a triumph. Really it's something we still pursue now, just within a different frame of reference.
Thank you for pointing out that the pyramids are not just highly elaborate tombs. As soon as you point out that they are actually "immortality technology" the idea of them and understanding them becomes so much more clear and understandable.
I own a copy of that E. A. Wallis Budge translation of the Book of the Dead. Truth be told, I bought it fully aware of its obsolescence. I learned who Budge was from the original _Stargate_ film, which I'm a big fan of.
history is a beautiful story of the past. your work told an amazing journey of written human knowledge with a glimpse in to the soul of understanding the past. i definitely enjoyed the story you shared. ✨️🌕
Great vid, would you care to speculate on the mounds of Horus, Osiris and Seth in the Field of Reeds at the south part of canal? Mounds sound like stars. I always wanted to find some good information on this Field of Reeds.
I just picked up a copy of JP Allen's translation of the Pyramid texts and no joke, it is sometimes very obscure and inscrutable... but there are passages of exceptional power and beauty that also compel me to keep reading and learning. I'm also working with his Middle Egyptian textbook to get a rudimentary understanding of heiroglyphics and the language, hoping eventually to peel back just a little more of that obscuring veil for a more scholarly grasp of the material.
I remember an article that came out perhaps half a year back, which proposed a new interpretation of mummification itself. The hypothesis was that one of the supernatural purposes of the mummification process was to transform (or translate) the _khet_ of the deceased, converting it into "a sort of divine statue" that their _Akh_ would use as their new corpus in Aaru. In that case, the fully-mummified remains would be interred more as another treasured possession of the departed than as a load-bearing column in the technological structure; even if it were to be destroyed at some later date, the _Akh_ would not suffer for it.
I strongly suspect that these series changed a great deal over the 4,000 years of Egyptian civilization. Even the shift from the Giza mortuary monuments to the pyramid texts, which is only a few hundred years later, is a substantial theological shift. Of course a thousand years later in the book of coming forth by day you have the whole weighing of the heart scene which never occurs really at all in the pyramid text - so it's obvious that there is an enormous amount of religious dynamism through Egyptian history
I think I remember something about the "Red sea" from Exodus having originally been a "Reed sea"; though I realize that it could just be referring to a marshy area, I'm wondering if there couldn't be a connection to the religiously significant reed sea in the Egyptian belief system.
I've recently gotten into all these esoteric topics from the past and it's the most interesting to me to take in a really think about how people have not always looked at life the way we do in the 21st century. In a few thousand years more people may look back at us like we look back at the ancient Egyptians and their beliefs.
People often associate the Ancient Egyptians with other ancient cultures, such as those of the Greeks, Romans, and Persians: but, when the Giza Pyramids were built, the Greek of the Hellenes, the Latin of the Romans, and the ancestor of both the Persian of the Achaemenids along with the Sanskrit of the Vedas, were all only dialects, and probably still mutually-intelligible, of one original language. That's how old Egypt is.
great as always, thank you. Not going to visit the tombs unfortunately, but read the monography 1,5 times and enjoy it. I am in a bit of need of a comparative study of the rituals trans the third millennium middle east and egipt civs. Shall you guys know a worthwhile book on this subject plz do replay to my humble comment. thanks again, and do not forget to support the channel... actually it is worth it!
I don't know of any comparative studies and basically anything that early would be very thin, I don't think that there are detailed religious texts from Mesopotamia until a few centuries later
@@TheEsotericaChanneli also don't know any pertinent tomes, but the comment really puts me in the mind of that fine old generalists's guidebook, Umberto Eco's hermetic treatise, Foucault's Pendulum.
Great episode! Love your explanations, it all makes sense. My question would be what they might do for pets? Did they have the same spells written on their sarcophagi? Like for Nedjeh? Did "Sweetie" have his own spells and prayers? Curious.
WOW as a person who isn’t well read in any of the topics you cover it never ceases to amaze me how well u can get this information across even if I’m your other videos I have to look up every other word you say lol but conceptually very understandable I’m glad your around for folks like me to develop my knowledge on these subjects
One fascinating fact of what we call ancient Egypt is that they had Egyptologists studying ancient Egypt. I can't recall off the top of my head the dates of the ancient Egyptologists, but they existed.
The amount of detail involved in Egyptian burials seems to rival the intensity of a NASA rocket launch. The logistics and the overseeing of all the details - the countless people involved and the years of training it must’ve meant: mind-boggling!
Your content is wonder--full,your presentation exceptional and always enjoyable.thanks very much.will gladly support when able,i want to be the first in my town to "rock"your cool shirts😊
I've been following your channel religiously (see what I did there?), and I have to say, this was perhaps your best and most awe-inspiring video! Great job!!
Egypt is the beginning of this journey too. From Yu Gi Oh, Mummies Alive to Pharaoh (video game published by sierra) was what inspired me to pay attention to religion.
Thank You. Excellent presentation. I have the 1969 ed of the Bollingen by Piankoff and have read it again and again and the meaning is totally obscure. You made it make sense. Thank You. again.
There's a really great album by Material, with William Burroughs, called 'Seven Souls,' which is musical reading of his novel 'The Western Lands.' It bears some mention in the context of the Pyramid Texts...
Thoroughly enjoy your content good sir. Can’t wait to give this my ear. For anybody looking for some in depth analysis of the Funerary texts, check out Judy Kay King’s work, specifically “The Isis Thesis” and “Balls of Fire.”
I have read a female authored translation of the Pyramid texts and a book called something like the Shamanic interpretation of them by a male and a more traditional translation. I liked the part about the ancient baboon or red/orange haired ape. It’s been a few years since I have read them.
wonderful video, really illuminating. Your comments on how the pyramid wasn't a tomb made me think of how we refer to New Grange as a passage tomb. Was it a tomb to my ancestors who built it? It could have been a place of ritual and or rebirth. Once again, amazing video.
I visited there a couple years ago and learned about some of the DNA evidence of the people that they think built the site. It was mind-blowing to realize they were from Anatolia!
That's so cool?! I haven't had the chance to visit newgrange but hopefully one day I'll win the lottery to see the solstice there/@@TheEsotericaChannel
Edit: THANK YOU FOR THE POINTING TO JAMES ALLEN! 🎉 📖 📚 🌅 🌌! Thankful for Archive! I really like this orientation and contextual beginning! Yes, the Book of Coming Forth by Day! Akh! Besides the Valley of the Kings, wherein royal tombs lay, I guess it's stated alongside that kings were buried there... (edit, parenthetical asides: Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure. But no tombs or sarcophagi. Why the three late obscure kings? Also, apparently Gobekli Tepe is carbon dated (?) to around 10,000 BC (?) at least according to standard science journals and publications? Developing latest archeological science dictates, and elsewhere in Egypt a perfect set of edifices deemed to be constructed 2500 years ago because it stated thus, notwithstanding later constructions a few hundred years later just crumbling, so exception of Giza is a one time feat, apparently...) What guide then or tome would supersede Budge? Will delve into. Just like the Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the "Bardo Thodol", the in-between. A distillation of the soul process: Ba, Ka, Akh. 🎉 it's fascinating! And an adept distillation delivery today of it! So fascinating!!! James P Allen 📖 📚! I love that mural (?) Of Nut, the sky goddess! The 🎨 modern art depictions outside of actual photography of the Pyramids at Giza don't often get the angle correctly (my makeshift self-note: four triangles at an angle "meet-up" to form a quadrilateral pyramid...) My man, Thoth, in the art! Is there an Esoterica field trip in the future??? You need a porter?? 🎉 📖 📚 📜 !! Will re-watch with greater focus! And calm. You have many treasures up your sleeve, Dr Sledge! Who needs treasure magic? Will still hit you up on it though! Gotta make sure such treasure is good to go! And not from Tut!🎉
Nik Turner, of Hawkwind fame, has a solo album out called "Xitintoday." It is all about Egyptian cosmology/theology and legend has it that the primary instrument, the flute, was recorded with Nik lying within a long empty sarcophagus giving the flute its rather unique reverb. The album's cd release has a nearly half hour long flute solo which would not have fit in a vinyl album but is too short to be an album on its own. The album would be the ideal accompaniment to this video. Highly recommended.
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As one who has been rethinking reality for the past five years, this topic has come up and this channel, @tomb of el-lumination, has delved into the BOTD as a way to decode our electro-magnetic realm. The ancients knew the sky and the body were inextricably linked and they drew pictures of it.
The oldest book was written in 2600 before the third or fourth century when Sefir Yetzirah was written? Which was the First? (Thank You. Really Enjoy your content. Thank You🙏🏼
I never cease to be awestruck by ancient Egypt. Putting time lines makes it even more amazing. Humans can be impressive, even with their faults.
Egypt is such a great testament to how a culture can exist and dominate for thousands of years in some form but then one day it's so gone that we don't even know how to read anything they wrote down.
They're fun tonread about, but it's best to keep a safe distance.
Someone writes boilerplate ritual on papyrus. 300 years later, tired scribe fails to change “insert name here” to “King Unas” on tomb wall. 4000 years later, Sledge points it out in a UA-cam video. Sledge says, “Whoops.” 4 months later, random former contract attorney hears this and laughs hysterically in shower at familiar blunder, then gives Sledge $10 in gratitude, heartily encouraging VR concept. VR concept eventually comes to fruition, activating secret unwritten portion of pyramid text’s underlying ritual technology. Akhification ensues. King Unas stoked.
Hahahahahaha Beautiful! 👏👏👏
"...and eventually become a fully Akhtivated Akh."
Don't you dare think that went unnoticed.
;)
😂😂😂
This is hands down the best educational show on UA-cam, thank you Justin.
Imagine missing out on divine immortality because some lowly plebian forgot to chisel your name into the eternal prayer adorning the wall of your tomb.
Happens to the best of us
Please fill in the blanks😂
@@TheEsotericaChannelI'm sure Osiris would understand and pardon a clerical error, hired help is historically so hard to find particularly if they are family.
"Bro I'll do it don't worry!!"
@@TheSandyStone” doesn’t do it “ proceeds to get blasted by lightning 💀💀
The red light of dawn being the Sun being birthed, blood and all, is such an INTENSE image. Thank you for the insight!
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yes, and the image of the blood red sun being birthed is also obviously a gendered image, that is to say that the idea of a female, giving birth to the sun feels like a reflection of a more woman centered civilization. Or am I assuming too much?
@DorothyPotterSnyder then explain all the phallic symbols and statues? Yes probably assuming to much.
Dear@@DorothyPotterSnyder in the spanish language "Dar a luz" means "giving birth", and we all know that's your (the women's) monopoly. Greetings from Mexico City.
@@DorothyPotterSnyder Taking it too far, bringing forth life is obviously something that would be attributed to women. The difference here is that they actually treated their women better than later cultures. This is a society that has written records of men taking days off of work to care for their wives and daughters going through menstruation.
Wow this was such a great video. I didn't really get how the Egyptians influenced so much of our concept of the soul in the West. Pretty cool stuff! All those Greeks going to Egypt sound like people going to burning man lol.
Intriguing perspective.
Hah! I imagine that the Egyptians got pretty sick of the Greeks after a while. They were not warm and fuzzy patriarchs, after all.
This brings back memories! The ancient Egyptian civilization was the first to spark my interest in ancient beliefs and writings. I even tried to do a list of all the hieroglyphs I could find, and that s no small feat for a 10 year old with no internet, just books.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉.......keep up the grand study.....for what one unleash on the earth 🌎............... 👏 you also unleash in heaven!! Your finding are connections to other biblical books 📚 ✨️......keep up the great work!! Or Once one ask The Most High to help bridge 🌉 the gaps yell see the Puzzle!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Eternal life was not discovered by the Egyptian it was stolen and everything is a trick to steal there way into eternal life or download into a new body but swaping with me will put a dent in ya hole species is it that hard to see that something else choose what u did just cause u did but as u asked the mom witch and made a deal Thay asked me and I said yes .
'Life, Prosperity and Health' to you too Dr Sledge. This was an excellent presentation of a very challenging collection of concepts from an era far, far removed from ours. I've been an amateur Egyptologist for over forty years and I'm still learning. In a discussion once I remember telling an elderly Christian friend of mine about the famous 'Cannibal Hymn' from The Pyramid Texts where Unas ritually slaughters, cooks and eats the bodies and the spirits of the gods. "Oh, like the eucharist...", was her surprised reaction. Excellent episode, Many thanks.
Christianity is basically Egyptian mystery school blended with Mithraism, Dionysius Cult, Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Judaism. Basically a cult centered around Alexander’s Empire and the bloodline of Julius Caesar.
Maestro, you gotta take some of this content on the road. Ritual theatre jams. Initiations and Transmission Tour.
That'd be great!
I never realized there was so much for the dead person to do and super interesting how they thought of the spirit as participating in the ceremony so literally, always thought you got to lay back and your freshly sacrificed servants would just get on with feeding you grapes
STILL one of the absolute best channels on UA-cam! Maazel-tov...🙏
I love how you open the door to my mind and dance through it. 🥰
What I’m saying is , you make learning easy.
I hear that, I've learned more here than all my time in high school!
❤
Amen. Sometimes he gets my brain's toe-tapping, & sometimes he shoves it into a mosh pit.
Thanks! Would you do a side by side comparison of the Egyptian and Tibetan books "of the dead"? Looking for shared or similar themes, differences, etc. Or do you know of a good one?
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉........I see 👀 the connection and why one would ask!! The Tibetan Scripture had more lower case Gods......The only I dis like is that you have to have a great working ear 👂 and Intuition to put God's of Egypt campaire too God's of Tibetan ..........key hint though: in the book 📖 OAHSPE it speaks of Lower case God's and Goddesses 🎉🎉🎉 and the many regions their assigned to!! Both Negative God's and Positive God's!! 🎉🎉🎉💔🌊❤️🩹❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎❤️🔥 amazing 👏 question!!
What a fantastic video. I'm watching more and more of this channel every day. I'm not a scholar, just an average bloke who barely scraped through year 12 in high school but Dr. Sledge makes these videos so accessible, interesting and straightforward (as much as anyone possibly could, considering the themes). We appreciate all the hard work you do Dr. Sledge, you are one of the most genuine people to ever grace this platform. 🙏🤯
What's wild to me is that when the Old Kingdom pyramids were being built, wooly mammoths were still hanging on at Wrangell Island. Just goes to show how ancient they really are.
no chance they were only built 4500 years ago.
they are far older than our modern epoch
@@steviechampagnewhat inspires you to say that? and what's your evidence to back up that?
Not trying to defunk you, I just want to hear your point of view.
Evidence of erosion from years of saltwater submersion (Great Flood) suggests the Egyptian pyramids are about 12,000 years old. Also, the perfect alignment they have with Orion at that particular time span
@@laralydemeter2413 Shut up, hack. That area was underwater 12,000 years ago.
If they were built preflood they would line up with the constellation Sirius.
How marvellously you present your knowledge on this most mystical civilisation! I so appreciate it because you take CARE not to make assumptions and are well researched. Too many are capitalising on cheap clickbait videos without much evidence. Thank you very much Sir.
Super stoked to see this one 😁 thank you as always for your scholarly content, Dr. Sledge
Fantastic! I also love the imagery of the bloody birth of the sun. The artwork is beautiful. I would so love to literally see the world through the eyes of old civilizations, to really see the physical world without the intermediaries of screens.
From Egypt, i really enjoyed this video, tons of information without the psuedo-science thank you!
I’ve always been more interested in Greek and Roman mythology than Egyptian, but wow, the way you describe the story of the sun’s daily rebirth and how the rituals of the tomb (forgive me) mirror that celestial rebirth, explaining the seemingly cryptic name of ‘The Book of Coming Forth by Day’… truly inspiring, you really convey how amazing these rituals are.
this is perfectly timed for a break from some particularly bothersome work, thank you Dr. Sledge
Always a good day when Esoterica posts🖤🖤
Excellent work, Dr Sledge. Keep it up 👏
This is so amazing. You successfully explained to us what was probably the most sacred of ancient Egypt rituals with great care and respect for the ancient civilization. This was what the ancient Egyptians lived for!
Excellent video. Thank you very much for this. I learned a lot here. That imagery of the ritual and cosmic birthing is especially beautiful. Here's a ritual comment spell to speed your video along the path of the UA-cam algorithm into internet immortality. (UA-cam's logo is red-that can't be a coincidence!)
Thanks also for dispelling from my mind this popular notion of the Egyptians as a culture obsessed with death. However, I'm a bit disappointed there weren't any Stargate or ancient spaceship jokes when talking about the pyramids as conduits for launching the recently deceased into the stars. (Or maybe there were, and I just missed them.) Not that your jokes weren't still very funny, per usual. Your humor is always on point. Thank you again. Your lectures I do believe are some of the best, if not the best, material on UA-cam, period.
We visited the Chicago Field Museum and saw the reconstruction of Unas' tomb! It's like walking into a pyramid's chambers on the first floor and you descend further into the exhibit seeing tomb goods until you exit in the Egyptian collection on the 2nd floor. It's really wonderful, and now I have a visual of the king's pyramid to identify him with today. I had no idea it was that ruined until now.
I also was recently there and your right. They did a great job with that exhibit. I never knew there was such an awesome exhibit in a museum in America
Truly fascinating. This was one of my favorite episodes. Thanks for the book recommendation on the subject.
It's also interesting how even though you go deep into these various topics, each one feels like it's just scratching the surface of an enormous amount of knowledge.
I was befuddled trying to figure out the context for the joke “dwell with gods in the gay bars.” Thank you, closed captioning. Day barge.
That's way better
The mummy is Daddy in drag.
Well, thank you. Your lessons are worth far more than I send, so you have my eternal gratitude. I guess I have been interested in the origins of religion since I first learned about Mesopotamia and Egypt in the…. third grade? In my adult life I think I have been on a search, walking backwards through where the beliefs I was taught came from, and you have brought me all the way back to the Egyptians, again.
I came here because, alchemy. Staying because of surprises like this. You said somewhere that it was good for the brain to have a sense of wonder, and I think the wonder you bring back into my life is kinda keeping me in it. Thanks!
Thank you for a very exciting, IMMORTAL episode. Something caught my ears about the Sea of Reeds. I am actually suprised some astral archeologist hasn't noticed the connection between the Sea of Reeds and the Moses story.
Anyway keep up the good work!
People have noticed it but not sure there's any connection.
@@TheEsotericaChannel lol, I don't believe there is yet suprised it hasn't been proposed!
@@TheEsotericaChannel I've often wondered if there was a connection between the Sea of Reeds and the Elysian Fields?
Thank you, again, Justin Sledge!!
Love these videos.
I've seen Egyptian hieroglyphs my entire life, but watching this it really just struck me how beautiful they are.
Just wanted to say I love that you have a Black Metal Esoterica shirt in your shop 🤘🐻🤘
Divine blessings brother Absolute i to have passed through the Ancient Egyptian consecration, and been reborn in mind rejoining the One ,hence knowing myself , and why im here ,and where im going ,and knowing all futures of soul ❤
I would love more about Seshat, godess of numbers and architecture.
Thanks again for sharing more high quality research, and the subtle humour too. I bought a long sleeved T -shirt just now. Keep up the good work!
Has to be one of the more interesting channels on UA-cam... Very well done and I love the nostalgia...
Thanks!
Dr Sledge thank you for another amazing video! You are an amazing teacher, your videos and the way you
articulate the content makes learning easy and fun. I think I've learned more from watching your videos then I did during the entire time I was in highschool . Your an amazing, amazing teacher, your students are so lucky to have an opportunity to learn from such an amazing and talented professor such as your self.
I'm very happy I found this channel. 👍
Glorious work sir
Oops, you did it again! Another informative, entertaining, episode. The description of the tunnel as a kind of birth canal and the birth fluids as the red of dawn reminded me of how terms like rosy fingered dawn appear over and over again in the Homeric epics. Thank you and g'mar chatima tovah.
A civilization that extends immortality technology to all its citizens is a triumph. Really it's something we still pursue now, just within a different frame of reference.
That was a great episode.
Thank you for pointing out that the pyramids are not just highly elaborate tombs. As soon as you point out that they are actually "immortality technology" the idea of them and understanding them becomes so much more clear and understandable.
Yay! Esoterica is talking about my favorite nerd topic again ✨
Super interesting lesson! Thanks, Justin!✨️⭐️🔥
This is wildly facinating. Thank you.
I own a copy of that E. A. Wallis Budge translation of the Book of the Dead. Truth be told, I bought it fully aware of its obsolescence. I learned who Budge was from the original _Stargate_ film, which I'm a big fan of.
Thank you for covering this.
history is a beautiful story of the past.
your work told an amazing journey of written human knowledge with a glimpse in to the soul of understanding the past.
i definitely enjoyed the story you shared. ✨️🌕
Amazing channel and amazing knowledge. Thank you so much for sharing ❤
Great vid, would you care to speculate on the mounds of Horus, Osiris and Seth in the Field of Reeds at the south part of canal? Mounds sound like stars. I always wanted to find some good information on this Field of Reeds.
I just picked up a copy of JP Allen's translation of the Pyramid texts and no joke, it is sometimes very obscure and inscrutable... but there are passages of exceptional power and beauty that also compel me to keep reading and learning. I'm also working with his Middle Egyptian textbook to get a rudimentary understanding of heiroglyphics and the language, hoping eventually to peel back just a little more of that obscuring veil for a more scholarly grasp of the material.
I remember an article that came out perhaps half a year back, which proposed a new interpretation of mummification itself.
The hypothesis was that one of the supernatural purposes of the mummification process was to transform (or translate) the _khet_ of the deceased, converting it into "a sort of divine statue" that their _Akh_ would use as their new corpus in Aaru. In that case, the fully-mummified remains would be interred more as another treasured possession of the departed than as a load-bearing column in the technological structure; even if it were to be destroyed at some later date, the _Akh_ would not suffer for it.
I strongly suspect that these series changed a great deal over the 4,000 years of Egyptian civilization. Even the shift from the Giza mortuary monuments to the pyramid texts, which is only a few hundred years later, is a substantial theological shift. Of course a thousand years later in the book of coming forth by day you have the whole weighing of the heart scene which never occurs really at all in the pyramid text - so it's obvious that there is an enormous amount of religious dynamism through Egyptian history
It was actually to preserve their DNA so they could be reborn, cloned, in a future time
Wow....thank you for really bringing this back to life...your the best..❤
I think I remember something about the "Red sea" from Exodus having originally been a "Reed sea"; though I realize that it could just be referring to a marshy area, I'm wondering if there couldn't be a connection to the religiously significant reed sea in the Egyptian belief system.
Great video. I learned a lot from your detailed explanations
I've recently gotten into all these esoteric topics from the past and it's the most interesting to me to take in a really think about how people have not always looked at life the way we do in the 21st century. In a few thousand years more people may look back at us like we look back at the ancient Egyptians and their beliefs.
People often associate the Ancient Egyptians with other ancient cultures, such as those of the Greeks, Romans, and Persians: but, when the Giza Pyramids were built, the Greek of the Hellenes, the Latin of the Romans, and the ancestor of both the Persian of the Achaemenids along with the Sanskrit of the Vedas, were all only dialects, and probably still mutually-intelligible, of one original language. That's how old Egypt is.
great as always, thank you. Not going to visit the tombs unfortunately, but read the monography 1,5 times and enjoy it. I am in a bit of need of a comparative study of the rituals trans the third millennium middle east and egipt civs. Shall you guys know a worthwhile book on this subject plz do replay to my humble comment.
thanks again, and do not forget to support the channel... actually it is worth it!
I don't know of any comparative studies and basically anything that early would be very thin, I don't think that there are detailed religious texts from Mesopotamia until a few centuries later
@@TheEsotericaChanneli also don't know any pertinent tomes, but the comment really puts me in the mind of that fine old generalists's guidebook, Umberto Eco's hermetic treatise, Foucault's Pendulum.
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That's awesome
I can't put in words how much I love this video. Thank you Justin.
You have a way with words that makes learning a joy. Very much appreciated 👍
Thank you for the dungeon map at 19:17, I needed that for my campaign.
Tomb of Horrors .01 edition
Sounds like some new merch should be coming. =}
Read my mind. 😂😂😂
Great episode! Love your explanations, it all makes sense. My question would be what they might do for pets? Did they have the same spells written on their sarcophagi? Like for Nedjeh? Did "Sweetie" have his own spells and prayers? Curious.
need to know this badly
20:30, Yeah, VR would be cool and all, but would also be cool to witness it in person with you and your entourage in Egypt!
WOW as a person who isn’t well read in any of the topics you cover it never ceases to amaze me how well u can get this information across even if I’m your other videos I have to look up every other word you say lol but conceptually very understandable I’m glad your around for folks like me to develop my knowledge on these subjects
One fascinating fact of what we call ancient Egypt is that they had Egyptologists studying ancient Egypt. I can't recall off the top of my head the dates of the ancient Egyptologists, but they existed.
The amount of detail involved in Egyptian burials seems to rival the intensity of a NASA rocket launch. The logistics and the overseeing of all the details - the countless people involved and the years of training it must’ve meant: mind-boggling!
Your content is wonder--full,your presentation exceptional and always enjoyable.thanks very much.will gladly support when able,i want to be the first in my town to "rock"your cool shirts😊
Always enjoyable learning here.
Great presentation!
I LIKE the idea of a VR experience.
I've been following your channel religiously (see what I did there?), and I have to say, this was perhaps your best and most awe-inspiring video! Great job!!
Great episode and thanks for the book recommendations!!
this man does not miss
Egypt is the beginning of this journey too. From Yu Gi Oh, Mummies Alive to Pharaoh (video game published by sierra) was what inspired me to pay attention to religion.
Thank you, Dr. Sledge.
Great information. Thanks.
Magnificent, Justin.
Thank You. Excellent presentation. I have the 1969 ed of the Bollingen by Piankoff and have read it again and again and the meaning is totally obscure. You made it make sense. Thank You. again.
I love this channel ❤
I love your channel so much!
There's a really great album by Material, with William Burroughs, called 'Seven Souls,' which is musical reading of his novel 'The Western Lands.' It bears some mention in the context of the Pyramid Texts...
Always brilliant!!
amazing as always
A VR demo is a great idea
Thank you brother!🙏
Thoroughly enjoy your content good sir. Can’t wait to give this my ear. For anybody looking for some in depth analysis of the Funerary texts, check out Judy Kay King’s work, specifically “The Isis Thesis” and “Balls of Fire.”
I have read a female authored translation of the Pyramid texts and a book called something like the Shamanic interpretation of them by a male and a more traditional translation. I liked the part about the ancient baboon or red/orange haired ape. It’s been a few years since I have read them.
I love the idea of making VR games of living through lives and deaths of people of the past and specially this type of death thank you.
Oh, that VR experience sounds amazing!
Wow that was amazing!
Thank you, Sir. You are shining a light in the darkness.
You can be proud of your contributions to mankind.
wonderful video, really illuminating. Your comments on how the pyramid wasn't a tomb made me think of how we refer to New Grange as a passage tomb. Was it a tomb to my ancestors who built it? It could have been a place of ritual and or rebirth. Once again, amazing video.
Unless you're from Turkey I doubt very seriously the ancestors that built new-grange are related to you if you're Irish
wow just looked into it and you're dead right@@TheEsotericaChannel (Also yes I am Irish not Turkish)
I visited there a couple years ago and learned about some of the DNA evidence of the people that they think built the site. It was mind-blowing to realize they were from Anatolia!
That's so cool?! I haven't had the chance to visit newgrange but hopefully one day I'll win the lottery to see the solstice there/@@TheEsotericaChannel
Edit: THANK YOU FOR THE POINTING TO JAMES ALLEN! 🎉 📖 📚 🌅 🌌! Thankful for Archive!
I really like this orientation and contextual beginning! Yes, the Book of Coming Forth by Day! Akh! Besides the Valley of the Kings, wherein royal tombs lay, I guess it's stated alongside that kings were buried there... (edit, parenthetical asides: Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure. But no tombs or sarcophagi. Why the three late obscure kings? Also, apparently Gobekli Tepe is carbon dated (?) to around 10,000 BC (?) at least according to standard science journals and publications? Developing latest archeological science dictates, and elsewhere in Egypt a perfect set of edifices deemed to be constructed 2500 years ago because it stated thus, notwithstanding later constructions a few hundred years later just crumbling, so exception of Giza is a one time feat, apparently...)
What guide then or tome would supersede Budge? Will delve into. Just like the Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the "Bardo Thodol", the in-between. A distillation of the soul process: Ba, Ka, Akh. 🎉 it's fascinating! And an adept distillation delivery today of it! So fascinating!!! James P Allen 📖 📚! I love that mural (?) Of Nut, the sky goddess! The 🎨 modern art depictions outside of actual photography of the Pyramids at Giza don't often get the angle correctly (my makeshift self-note: four triangles at an angle "meet-up" to form a quadrilateral pyramid...) My man, Thoth, in the art! Is there an Esoterica field trip in the future??? You need a porter?? 🎉 📖 📚 📜 !! Will re-watch with greater focus! And calm. You have many treasures up your sleeve, Dr Sledge! Who needs treasure magic? Will still hit you up on it though! Gotta make sure such treasure is good to go! And not from Tut!🎉
Great work 💯👍
😅 yes, you got me. i like the pictures. 😂
Thanks again for all the solid content. ❤
Nik Turner, of Hawkwind fame, has a solo album out called "Xitintoday." It is all about Egyptian cosmology/theology and legend has it that the primary instrument, the flute, was recorded with Nik lying within a long empty sarcophagus giving the flute its rather unique reverb. The album's cd release has a nearly half hour long flute solo which would not have fit in a vinyl album but is too short to be an album on its own.
The album would be the ideal accompaniment to this video. Highly recommended.