17 10 / 2011

The Tuat was not considered underground nor in the sky or on its confines; but it was located on the borders of the visible world. That it was not a particularly happy place is described in the Book of the Dead, when the Scribe Ani arrived there, seemingly bewildered.

There is neither water nor air here, its depth is unfathomable, it is as dark as the darkest night and men wander about here hopelessly.

A final observation: the Tuat was a region of destruction and death, a place where the dead rotted and decayed, a place of abomination and horror and terror and annihilation.