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This episode is a little change of pace. The Book of The Dead may sound like a book that most people won't consider picking up because of it's title but the material is far from morbid and pertaining strictly to death. Rather, it is a collection of hymns and odes that was used by the ancients like a tool to guide their ascent into the afterlife. It was meant to be used as a roadmap of sorts. We cover E.A. Wallis Budge's translation in this episode because it is one of the oldest and truest to form. I make a somewhat unfair statement early in the podcast that the other translators offer a less true to form version and I want to go on record as retracting that statement because it wasn't right of me to take that position. All of the extant translations provide the same gist when they are read and none are so far off that they suggest something entirely different. I really enjoyed making this podcast and said that I would make another in this season but we will have to save it for the second. Anyways, I hope you enjoy it.