@anonymous

[windsongs]

I have a question for the group. Has anyone tried to find family or friends they have lost over the years, or a trace that they might have passed through the Netherworld? Have you been successful?

If not, would you? What would you say to them if you managed to find them?

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[windsongs]

[ Who is this guy just vibing while talking about dead people ]

Duat? Is that another realm of the afterlife?

[redsoil]

[ oh you know, just some weirdo ]

Naturally! There are many realms of the dead. The one I speak of belongs to Egypt and its people.

I thought if I could find my brother, I'd be able to cheat him into letting us go.

[windsongs]

[ Apparently! ]

I see. I don't know much about Egyptology, but I do know that there are several different interpretations of where the dead go after they move on from the world of the living
It's interesting to find someone with a perspective I haven't heard before, and some firsthand knowledge. I may need to find you off network one day and pick your brain

Does your brother really have that much sway?

[redsoil]

[ FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE....... HIBIKI, hoNEY ]

Oh, without a doubt. Osiris is the god of the dead, and lord of Duat.

[windsongs]

[ Record scratch ]

Your brother is Osiris?

[ Nani the fuck??? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GODS HERE ]

[redsoil]

[ gods with ties to the underworld in some capacity, at that??? ]

That's him. Former king of Egypt, carved up and thrown in the Nile - that guy.

I'm surprised he hasn't come knocking; all waters connect, in the end. Why not Stygia's to Duat, or Styx, or Irkalla!

[windsongs]

[ Whelp, bump the quota of gods that she knows to three two! Well, "knows." Has conversed with even if he isn't aware of that fact. ]

Do they really? That's the first that I have heard anything like that.

[ Please, tell her more. ]

[redsoil]

I have traveled beyond the borders defended by the Ennead, and found many underworlds have seas and rivers. More than that, many of our divine origins trace back to primordial waters -- cosmogenic chaos. We are born of waters and return to it. From Apsu, Nu, Khaos, Danu. To Irkalla, Duat, Styx, Patala.

If we can trace our origins to the cosmic sea, then the waters of the underworld must be that same sea.

[ he is,,

an infinitely curious god ]

At least, that's what I've wondered.

So, I wonder. Could we not sail the seas and rivers here, and find where the waters unite?

[windsongs]

Considering that many early civilizations were also associated with rivers and other bodies of water, somehow knowing that rivers and seas are a common theme for the underworld is a little reassuring. It's reassuring to know that some things stay the same, in life and death. I would be interested to hear how

I think you would be hard-pressed to find people willing to brave the Tempest to find where they meet here on the Netherwork.

[ But if he asks off network on the other hand... ]