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  • "Tuat," i.e., hell, or the Other World, in which region he had determined to make his light to shine.

    Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895

  • Anubis was the Opener of the Way, presiding over the oval gateway to the realm of the dead — that gateway known to the ancient Egyptians as the Dat, or Duat, or Tuat.

    A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002

  • Alexander G. Laing crossed the desert from Tripoli to Tuat and thence to Timbuktu, the first 19th-century European to visit that city.

    2. European Exploration, 1795-1895 2001

  • At the head of the coffin was a representation of Setu, a minor god who stood guard in the tenth hour of Tuat, the underworld, and used a javelin to help Ra slay his enemies.

    Blood Lines Huff, Tanya 1993

  • But in the far east of the Moghreb the French closed the oases of Tuat and

    Morocco S.L. Bensusan

  • In the time of a brief sickness that visited him the French took the oases of Tuat, which belongs to the country just so surely as does this our Marrakesh.

    Morocco S.L. Bensusan

  • A caravan from Tuat, which had joined that of Daumas, had augmented in the same proportions.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • French penetration in the far-off districts of no man's land beyond Tafilalt was well-known to these travelling market-folk; the Saharowi had spoken with the heads of a caravan that had come with slaves from Ghadames, by way of the Tuat, bound for Marrakesh.

    Morocco S.L. Bensusan

  • Daumas and his companion caravan of Tuat struck out to the northwest for the oasis of

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • Timbuctoo and closed the oases of Tuat; but I saw some caravans arrive from the interior -- one of them from the sandy region where Mons.

    Morocco S.L. Bensusan

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