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Ancient Egyptian Music II – Jeffrey Goodman’s album imaging, exploring and celebrating Ancient Egyptian culture and musical art: Here is a list of all 17 tracks, available now for free viewing and listening on You Tube:

1. Lament of Isis and Nephythys on the Death of Osiris - Ancient Egyptian Music II (1 of 17) [ Ссылка ]

2. Homage to Pharaoh Tutankhamum - Ancient Egyptian Music II (2 of 17)
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3. King Tut's Drum Spell for Repelling a Crocodile - Ancient Egyptian Music II (3 of 17)[ Ссылка ]

4. Love Song of King Tutankhamun's Princess Bride – Ancient Egyptian Music II (4 of 17)
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5. King Tut's Drum Spell for Repelling a Beetle - Ancient Egyptian Music II (5 of 17)
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6. Shamanic Exorcism of King Tut's Tomb - Ancient Egyptian Music II (6 of 17)
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7. King Tut's Spirit Drummers Invoke Horus - Ancient Egyptian Music II (7 of 17)
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8. King Tut's Drum Spell for Opening the Tomb - Ancient Egyptian Music II (8 of 17)
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9. King Tut's Death Journey on the Ark of Ra - Ancient Egyptian Music II (9 of 17)
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10. Sacred Song of Anubis - Ancient Egyptian Music II (10 of 17)
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11. Cleopatra's Song of the Nile - Ancient Egyptian Music II (11 of 17)
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12. Cleopatra's Song of the Blind Harpists - Ancient Egyptian Music II (12 of 17)
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13. Cleopatra's Dance of the Magic Raindrops - Ancient Egyptian Music II (13 of 17)
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14. Cleopatra's Lullaby of the Birds - Ancient Egyptian Music II (14 of 17)
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15. Love Song of the Chantress of Osiris - Ancient Egyptian Music II (15 of 17)
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16. Prophetic Harps of Amun Ra - Ancient Egyptian Music II (16 of 17)
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17. Egyptian Goddess Tefnut's Magic Rain Spell - Ancient Egyptian Music II (17 of 17)
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The Egyptian Goddesses Isis and Nephthys were sisters and wives of their brother Osiris. When their brother Set became jealous of Osiris, he sealed Osiris in a specially made box and cast it away in a river that carried it to sea.

Ancient Egyptian texts called “Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys” have survived. In them the grieving sisters lament the loss of Osiris.

This music imagines the goddesses singing their lamentations, one after another, until they both join in a duet.

They are accompanied by ancient harp, wooden flute, finger cymbals, tambourine and systrum. Although no authentic ancient Egyptian music has survived to today, these instruments are often depicted in the paintings and murals of the time.

The music was composed and recorded at the Shelter of Clear Light Recording Studio in Los Angeles in July, 2018.

In this piece, Jeffrey Goodman imagines a group of drummers during the reign of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. They are invoking a spell that is intended to repel a beetle. It is inspired by a spell from the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.

"The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom. The original Egyptian name for the text, is translated as Book of Coming Forth by Day or Book of Emerging Forth into the Light. The book consists of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife and written by many priests over a period of about 1,000 years.

The Book of the Dead, which was placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased, was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were painted onto objects, not written on papyrus. Some of the spells included in the book were drawn from these older works and date to the 3rd millennium BCE. Other spells were composed later in Egyptian history, dating to the Third Intermediate Period (11th to 7th centuries BCE). A number of the spells which make up the Book continued to be separately inscribed on tomb walls and sarcophagi, as the spells from which they originated always had been...."
( adapted from Wikipedia)

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