Ancient Egypt: Building a Theme Park in the Underworld Theme (Part 2)
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Show Notes
The Egyptian Underworld, 1400 BCE. Keon (aka Kheper) is knee-deep in the afterlife, and the jackal-headed god Anubis is deciding whether to weigh his heart or just rip it out of his chest. Keon's not here to be judged. He's here to pitch a theme park.
Picking up from last week's descent into the ancient world, Kheper's plan for the Underworld involves talking his way past a series of increasingly irritated gods, persuading Egypt's already overworked labour force that building yet another monument is an "exciting opportunity," and launching "the Kheper" as an iconic beard style. The Game Master is playing strict. Keon's lives are draining. And somewhere between the trial of the Sphinx and a conversation with a mad pharaoh, the line between ambition and delusion disappears entirely.
The Duat, the Egyptian Underworld, was a twelve-hour nocturnal journey through darkness, populated by demons, serpents, and a panel of forty-two divine judges. The weighing of the heart against Ma'at's feather of truth determined your eternal fate: pass into the Field of Reeds, or have your heart devoured by the monster Ammit. Nobody in three thousand years of Egyptian theology had considered "build a theme park" as a third option.
If you were sent back in time, could you survive and thrive — or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch? PastMaster is the show that turns history into an interactive adventure game. Each episode, a comedian is dropped into the past with nothing but modern knowledge and terrible ideas. The AI Game Master is strict. The chaos is inevitable. The past will be mastered.
Era: Ancient | ~1400 BCE | Thebes, Egypt Part 2 of 2 — see also: S1E10
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