The Duat

The Egyptian Other World (Budge writes "Tuat") — "a vast and difficult region" without roads, "black as the blackest night", which the dead must cross with spells and amulets to reach the Fields of Sekhet Aaru and the presence of Osiris, and which the Sun-god traverses each night in ten divisions. Thoth rules it for Ra; Anubis guards its Gates.