You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan.

Great to have you listening in. Have you ever wondered if God, upon the creation of the world, revealed to human beings, a pure, true, religious tradition?

Because on this podcast, we explore the surprising and what I consider to be mind-boggling evidence that's found in the oldest religious writings and cosmologies,

theologies, symbols, sacred architecture, rituals, and myths, pointing to a distinct primordial tradition, which we refer to on this program as the ancient tradition. On this podcast, we delve into the evidence. We look at all

of the patterns. We talk about the theology. And we contemplate the spiritual implications of that

theology. It's not always in line what we think things are going to be. So it's a podcast that's going to spark some discussion.

It may even provoke a lot of questions.

And ultimately, I hope that it inspires the pursuit of the divine.

Be sure and check out our companion website, the ancient tradition.com, because you can find

pictures and transcripts and links to each of our past episodes, which are pretty darn important

to getting a comprehensive view of the theology inherent in the ancient tradition.

In today's episode, we're going to dig into the texts that were left by the ancient Egyptians

to see if they, like the ancient Mesopotamians, attest that God imposed a divine wall or barrier

of some type in the cosmos to separate sacred and profane space.

So let's start by looking at an ancient Egyptian document translated by the famed

Egyptologist Kurt Seite, dated to the 19th dynasty, which spanned50 to 1292 BC, which speaks of the gods,

giving the earthly Egyptian pharaoh dominion over everything under the heavens until it reaches

the dark primordial waters. The text reads, quote, cause your boundaries to extend beneath the whole

reach of the sky to the limits of the eternal darkness. So this text clearly indicates that ancient

Egyptians understood that there was a boundary to the king's dominion,

and that that boundary was distinguished by the, quote, limits of the eternal darkness.

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