Aaru’s Connections

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Serves

• Osiris

  Osiris rules over Aaru, the Field of Reeds, where souls judged worthy in the Hall of Two Truths dwell in eternal paradise.

Member of

• Duat

  Duat, the Egyptian underworld, contains the Hall of Two Truths, the Lake of Fire, and Aaru (the Field of Reeds) among its regions.

Associated with

• Akhet

  The Akhet, the eastern horizon, marks the location of Aaru in Egyptian cosmology — the paradise lies in the realm of perpetual sunrise beyond where the sun emerges each dawn.

• Book of the Dead

  The Book of the Dead maps the path to Aaru in word and image, its vignettes showing the justified dead plowing, sowing, and reaping in fields of impossible abundance beside canals that never run dry.

• Forty-Two Assessors

  Those declared 'true of voice' by the Forty-Two Assessors and the weighing of the heart proceed to Aaru, the Field of Reeds, where they enjoy eternal life among the blessed dead.