Anubis guards the Duat as Lord of the Sacred Land, protecting the dead on their journey through the underworld's perils.
The Great Sphinx guards the entrance to the Duat at the western horizon, its position at the Giza necropolis marking the threshold where the dead begin their journey through the underworld toward resurrection.
Wepwawet, the Opener of Ways, clears the Duat's treacherous paths of hostile forces, ensuring safe passage for Ra's solar barque and for the souls of the dead navigating toward judgment.
Osiris reigns over the Duat as king of the dead, presiding over the judgment of souls from his throne in the Hall of Two Truths.
Duat, the Egyptian underworld, contains the Hall of Two Truths, the Lake of Fire, and Aaru (the Field of Reeds) among its regions.
The Akhet marks the boundary between the visible world and the Duat, the horizon serving as the gateway through which Ra descends each evening into the underworld and emerges renewed each dawn.
Ammit crouches beside the scales in the Duat's Hall of Two Truths, waiting to devour the hearts of those found heavier than Ma'at's feather, consigning them to a second and final death.
Apophis lurks in the deepest regions of the Duat, attacking Ra's solar barque each night during the seventh hour in an attempt to swallow the sun and end creation.
Atum as the evening sun descends into the Duat each night, beginning the solar barque's journey through the underworld before rebirth at dawn.
The Book of the Dead provides maps, passwords, and spells essential for navigating the Duat's perils, guiding the deceased past gates, serpents, and demons to reach judgment.
The Duat lies beneath Geb, the earth god, with its caverns and regions stretching through the body of the earth that Ra traverses each night.
Hathor greets the dead at the western mountain as they enter the Duat, offering sustenance from her sacred sycamore tree and guiding the newly deceased toward the afterlife.
Isis rides aboard Ra's solar barque through the Duat, her magic shielding the sun god from the serpents and demons that assail the vessel during its nightly passage through the underworld.
Ra emerges from the Duat's twelfth hour reborn as Khepri, the scarab-headed morning sun, completing the nightly cycle of death and regeneration within the underworld.
Nephthys stands alongside Isis aboard Ra's solar barque in the Duat, the two sisters flanking the sun god as divine protectors during his perilous nightly journey through the underworld.
Ra sails through the twelve hours of the Duat each night aboard his solar barque, illuminating the dead, defeating the forces of chaos, and emerging reborn at dawn to renew the cycle of creation.
Sokar's mysterious region occupied the deepest passages of the Duat, corresponding to the fourth and fifth hours of the night through which Ra's sun barque passed in its most perilous stretch of the underworld journey.
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