Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts - The Keys to Eternity Before The Book of the Dead 

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"...and eventually become a fully Akhtivated Akh." Don't you dare think that went unnoticed.

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.

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.

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.

The red light of dawn being the Sun being birthed, blood and all, is such an INTENSE image. Thank you for the insight!

From Egypt, i really enjoyed this video, tons of information without the psuedo-science thank you!

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.

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.

'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.

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

i was an ancient Egypt kid, every few months I have to stop and wow what an incredible place and history. great vid

I love how you open the door to my mind and dance through it. 🥰 What I’m saying is , you make learning easy.

Maestro, you gotta take some of this content on the road. Ritual theatre jams. Initiations and Transmission Tour.

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.

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.

STILL one of the absolute best channels on RU-vid! Maazel-tov...🙏

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. 🙏🤯

I would love more about Seshat, godess of numbers and architecture.

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.

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.

Super stoked to see this one 😁 thank you as always for your scholarly content, Dr. Sledge

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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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?

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.

this is perfectly timed for a break from some particularly bothersome work, thank you Dr. Sledge

Always a good day when Esoterica posts🖤🖤

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 RU-vid algorithm into internet immortality. (RU-vid'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 RU-vid, period.

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.

Excellent work, Dr Sledge. Keep it up 👏

Three videos in a week!

Yay! Esoterica is talking about my favorite nerd topic again ✨

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 RU-vid 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.

Thank you for the dungeon map at 19:17, I needed that for my campaign.

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.

That was a great episode.

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'm very happy I found this channel. 👍

As an Egyptian I wish I was as interesting as the ancient history of my homeland lol

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.

Thank you, again, Justin Sledge!! Love these videos.

Thank you for covering this.

This is wildly facinating. Thank you.

Wow....thank you for really bringing this back to life...your the best..❤

I can't put in words how much I love this video. Thank you Justin.

Has to be one of the more interesting channels on RU-vid... Very well done and I love the nostalgia...

Super interesting lesson! Thanks, Justin!✨️⭐️🔥

You have a way with words that makes learning a joy. Very much appreciated 👍

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!

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.

Great video. I learned a lot from your detailed explanations

Great episode and thanks for the book recommendations!!

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.

Always enjoyable learning here.

I love your channel so much!

When I stated "tomb" for the Pyramid text, I meant the size of the volume in itself to which, I Am on my 3rd reading. We do know today the Temples and the Pyramid, was never intended to house the Dead. Thank you for including the Una's temple info and clarification Dr. Sledge.

Glorious work sir

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.

Thank you, Dr. Sledge.

Amazing channel and amazing knowledge. Thank you so much for sharing ❤

Has anyone tested the immortality function of any of the Pyramids? Put a stiff in there (suggest Graham Hancock), then check again in 1000 years to see if it worked.

amazing as always

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.

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. ✨️🌕

Always brilliant!!

Magnificent, Justin.

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!

Wow that was amazing!

Great information. Thanks.

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

Great presentation! I LIKE the idea of a VR experience.

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'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!!

Oh, that VR experience sounds amazing!

Best explanation ever

I love this channel ❤

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.

Excellent

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 highly recommend you watch a film called a field in England. It has very occultist symbolism and even includes using demons for treasure hunting lol. I think viewers of this channel would highly enjoy it.

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.

brilliant, nice one

Pythagoras lived from about 570 BC through 500 BC. In 570 BC there was an Egyptian civil war involving Pharaoh Apries (reigned 589-570 BC). He employed 30,000 Greek mercenaries but lost the war. The victor became Pharaoh Amasis II (reigned 570-526 BC). Pharaoh Amasis II was not crazy about Greek mercenary armies roaming around Egypt, so he set up a military encampment, Naucratis, that all Greeks in Egypt were confined to. The encampment was nicely situated on a tributary to the Nile delta, so that the Greeks could easily get to the Mediterranean. This resulted in a robust trade network centered in Naucratis. Egyptians sent grain, linen and papyrus to Greece, while in return the Greeks sent silver, timber, olive oil, and wine. It is probably impossible to say exactly which philosophical ideas from Egypt influenced Greek thinking, (or visa versa) but the conditions were there for such exchanges of ideas around the time of Pythagoras.

Thanks!

I will always love books with pictures :)

Great work 💯👍

I was thinking being mummified was part of their way of becoming immortal, somehow. I remember trying to read more about Seth on Google and read the story about Horus being killed so Anubis helps to kinda bring Horus back to life by mummifying Horus. Didn't realize their burial chambers had something to do with it too.

this man does not miss

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.

That Pitagora joke

Thanks

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😊

My name is Sakkera, but my mother originally wanted to name me Saqqara. Reading about it from an old art book sparked her interest in Egyptology. Just a little fun fact about me. (Also I don't care I put my name out there)

I’d love a VR representation of that ritual !

love your work. it is so right on. you have one of my favorite disciplines just like you. keep it up. can't get enough of the truth. {q}

An excellent and enjoyable episode! Thanks so much for this! Will you be doing episodes on the Coffin Texts as well? (You've done one on the Book of Coming Forth By Day already, as I recall...!) What about some of the "weird" later Ptolemaic and Roman akhification texts? The latter are discussed so little, it would be interesting to see them get a bit more attention! ;) Have you ever read or seen Jeremy Naydler's work on these texts? The title of his book puts me off a bit, but the book itself has some interesting ideas in it, and ones that I think are viable. Ignoring the "shamanism" of the title, what he's arguing (in case you haven't read it!) is that the various texts would have been used as a practice while the pharaoh was still alive, in essence like the Orphic lamellae, or the Tibetan "Book of the Dead" (also not a good title!), where one essentially rehearses what will happen in an initiatory fashion before one dies, and then the ritual is performed with the same pronouncements, and the writings remain on the walls of the akhification chambers to constantly remind the Akh (or the coming-and-going Ba) of the process. Anyway, that makes it very interesting, because it implies that even if one got it "right" once, at death, one might not always get it right after that; or, indeed, if one didn't get it right the first time at one's initial death, one could perhaps keep trying, and be aided with this hieroglyphic crib sheet, as it were, that surrounds one in the akhification chambers and structures. Your VR idea is a great one, and I wish that was something which could be done for a lot of things, including what we can piece together of the Eleusinian Mysteries, for example. But, as I'm sure those who have the best access to make such things would probably say: why do that when you can do a better graphics rehash of Mortal Kombat? :( Also: did you ever see the Sesame Street special "Don't Eat the Pictures!"? If not, you'd be highly amused by it...! If you haven't, the only enticement you should need is the phrase "James Mason as Osiris"...!?! ;)