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The Solar Cycle — Day-Barque & Night Journey

Every night the sun sails through the land of the dead and fights a serpent to be reborn.

Egyptians understood the sun's daily course as a cosmic drama of renewal. By day Ra sailed across the sky in his boat; at sunset he entered the underworld (the Duat), passing through its hours, defeating the chaos-serpent Apophis, and uniting with Osiris before being reborn at dawn. New Kingdom 'Netherworld Books' on royal tomb walls mapped this nightly journey hour by hour.

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