Round 1: Tossup 15

Description Acceptable. One event in this location begins at the Ur-Nes and is threatened by a figure born from an umbilical cord. Another event in this location involves reading 42 negative confessions listed in a text named for Ani. After that event, some figures are selected to progress to this place’s (*) “Field of Reeds.” While in this place, (-5[2])priests destroy wax models of one figure to help his adversary pass through this place’s (-5[1])twelve gates. (10[1])After leaving this place, one god manifests as the scarab Khepri. Ammit devours impure hearts weighed against the feather of Ma'at (10[1])in this location. At night, Ra’s solar barge (10[1])traverses through, for 10 points, what place ruled by Osiris? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Duat [or Tuat or Amenthes; accept descriptions of the Egyptian underworld or the Egyptian afterlife; accept kingdom of Osiris before “Osiris”; prompt on underworld or afterlife]
<Mythology, Hariharan Ananthakrishnan> | VAULT II Packet 01
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