Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go.

Tonight let's take a relaxing journey into the past with more from the manual of Egyptian archaeology and a guide to the study of antiquities in Egypt.

By Gaston Camille Charles Maspero, D.C. L. Oxford,

member of the Institute of France,

Professor at the College of France, ex-director general of Egyptian museums,

translated by Amelia B Edwards in a new edition revised and enlarged by the author with 309 illustrations, first published

in 1895.

Let's pick up right where we left off at the beginning of Chapter 3.

Let's begin. 3.

Chapter 3 Tumes.

The Egyptians regarded man as composed of various different entities, each having its separate life and functions.

First there was the body, then the kah or double, which was a less solid duplicate of the corporeal form, a colored by the eal projection of the individual,

reproducing him feature for feature.

The double of a child was a child,

the double of a woman was as a woman. The double of a man was as a man.

After the double, Kaa, came the soul, B ba which was popularly represented as a human-headed bird.

After the soul came the coup or the luminous a spark from the divine fire. None of these

elements were in their own natures imperishable. Left to themselves they would hasten to dissolution, and the man would

dust die a second time. That is to say, he would be annihilated

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