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There are a number of mythological places are mentioned in Egyptian texts, they are as follows:

Aaru: Aaru is the paradise at the end of Duat, souls whose Ib (heart) weighed the same or less than the feather of truth (Shu) were allowed safe passage across Duat where they would find the paradise of the Gods and live in eternal pleasure.

Amentet: The land of the setting sun where the dead awaited the boat of the sun God Ra. The worshipers of Ra who were fortunate enough to secure certain magic formulas were allowed safe passage across Duat where they would disembark on the otherside in the paradise land of Aaru.

Bakhau and Manu: The twin sacred mountains of sunrise and sunset where the sun would rise and descend from the underworld similar to the Sumerian concepts of the mountains of Mashu.

Benben: The mound of land that arose from the primordial waters on magical command from the androdgynous deity Atum who then settled on the island.

Ma’ati: The hall of judgement (depicted above) where the souls of the dead have their Ib (heart) weighed against the feather of truth (Shu) by the weighing scales Goddess Ma’at and the other Gods present in ceremony to determine wether the dead soul had lived a righteous life, if they had adhered to the 42 commandments of Ma’at they were allowed to ascend to Aaru while if they had not their Ib (heart) would weigh heavily against the feather of truth (Shu) and would be devoured by the monster Amut forcing the soul to wander Duat as a shades.

Re-Stau: Secret passages built into Egyptian tombs said to lead from the mortal world into the underworld of Duat.

Sekhet-Aaru: The island of the dead.

Sheni: A torture chamber of the damned in the underworld.

Going battling again after seeing a Voltorb in the gym. I managed to take it out in one hit with Hyper Fang, but I don’t want to risk losing Nibble to a stronger one.

After two years of taking Global history, it's finally over. Yesterday night, I didn't study at all because I was tired so I just lounged around online until 2AM. I woke up at 6 because of my mom and told her to wake me up at 7:30 or so, since I had to be at Melodie's house before 8:15. Awake, I wore the same top I wore to sleep to school, (LOL, I didn't think I'd be doing anything!) and I just ate a little bit of everything from my kitchen. I sat on the sofa for a good 15 minutes since I was already packed up from the previous night and my mom kicked me out of the house at 7:55AM, and told me to just walk slowly and count how many steps it took to get from my house to Melodie's - it takes about 278 if anyone was wondering. I called her and told her, then she told me I probably did it wrong because I got to her house so fast.

Arriving at school, I spoke with Anna for a bit and told her how the Mongols came before the Ottomans and that I'd be so disappointed if she got something like that wrong on the Regents. I found Neriel in his yellow shirt and went over there. He basically almost high-five'd me in the face. David told me about how he found twenty dollars in the morning and how he just made the bus with perfect timing. I managed to get to school before Eve, even though she lived closer and her and Monica had plans to get to school 30 minutes early. Yeah, that could've gone better. :D In the testing room, I was in David's row, but the last seat and I was almost next to Sharon. Sharon told me to go with her to the mall and the test eventually began at 9:15AM with Mr. Jost as the proctor. I was enjoying myself while I took the multiple choice - I finished that part in about twenty minutes. When I looked up at the clock and it was 9:40ish, I felt like I did everything wrong, but I was just too lazy to go back so I just moved onto the DBQ. I took my time - mad chill about everything during the test - answering the questions about the documents. Lucky that topic was a DBQ because if it was the thematic, I wouldn't have known a thing. I got up to the thematic and got that over with. My hand got tired near the end of the DBQ, but for the thematic I tried to write really neatly because I didn't want to be the first one finished. I went back to the Multiple Choice section, answered every question over again, and decided that it was just time to leave. It was 11:20AMish.

I walked outside and there was no one there so I stood looking at the doors for awhile until Emma came out! I asked her about all the questions I was unsure about and we put the same answers for all of them! I was so happy because that meant that I had a chance at getting them right. Eventually, more people started coming out and we all exchanged answers - most of us guessed the same things which is reassuring. Eventually, Keith and Jinny went off to go to Flushing, a bunch of the Asian guys, including David and Patrick went off to the Handball courts, leaving Me, Melodie, Ira, Emma, Eve, and Marta - eventually Meredith, Reylyn, and Amy came out. We stood around awhile longer, but it was getting really hot so a group of us wanted to go to Starbucks. Melodie and Emma took the mainroad, while Neriel, Eman, Ira, Sharon, Amy, and I took the shadier way. (SHADIER MEANING LESS SUN LOL) We got there and found out that they weren't allowed to serve us until after 3. From there, we decided to go to the mall area for Panera Bread and Ira went home. The bus ride was alright, the majority of the time, Jan (who came on a little later) was deciding whether or not to go jogging with her friend at Clove Lake Park. She met him at her CSI classes and he was about six years older than her. Deciding it was kind of sketchy, she didn't want to go and needed help with finding an excuse while we got off the bus to find Sharon's friend, Rachel, at Michael's. We walked the rest of the way to Panera Bread, which wasn't that far in actuality. Sharon, Rachel and I shared a table - Sharon and I bought this loaf of sesame bread! It was really good and smelled really good, too. Originally, Neriel was  going to the gym and I was just going to take the same bus as him but then we ended up going to the mall with Sharon and Rachel while the others went off to Emma's house.

In the mall, everyone was suddenly so mean today! LOL, it was funny though so we're not even mad. Neriel was mad  easily distracted by everything, then we  basically ran into the doggy store and Neriel was playing with this puppy and this lady comes up to him and says, "SIR, PLEASE STOP TEASING THE DOG." and mutters mad shit under her breath about how she didn't understand people after so many years of doing this job. Ahaha, really silly - like we couldn't hear her.  >_> We walked out after that. We went through a bunch of other stores, such as Old Navy (where there was this really stylish looking VB), the candy store (which I didn't know existed until today), Hollister, American Eagle, Aeropostale, Bath&Body Works, maybe some others, but I don't remember. Here's the list of strange things for today though:

Puppy situation aforementioned.

At the Apple store, the man told Sharon and Rachel they were only allowed on the iPad? Computer? for two minutes. Then he came over and told us that we weren't allowed to hangout there.

In the Disney store, while Sharon was paying for my super late birthday gift, the cashier told this other lady to stop cursing, especially inside such a store. Then the lady turns and says that she could curse where she wants to and that it was impossible for black people to shop without getting grilled at nowadays. Ahahaa, turning every situation racist. Smh.

At Borders, the people told us to get off the floor while we were reading the Harry Potter pop-up book. We were almost done anyways. Oh, and we decided we should try to do a group novel. I'd love to, if I could stay awake.

In the mall though, it was really relaxing and generally a really chill day. I took the bus home and my mom made this korean soup thing where I usually put noodles, but since err'one's lazy today, I just put in rice. After going through my dash, I showered, and watched half an episode of Dream High with Meredith. The two lead guy characters are really good looking. o_o