Democratization of the Afterlife

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• relationship Expansion and regional variation of Coffin Text traditions — occurred at or involved — Beni Hasan
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  contradicts · reviews and rejects simple model · Full article and conclusion

  Supports the non-linear interpretation of afterlife access.

• date assertion Expansion and regional variation of Coffin Text traditions — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  contradicts · reviews and rejects simple model · Full article and conclusion

  Supports the non-linear interpretation of afterlife access.

• relationship Coffin Texts — documented or interpreted through — Expansion and regional variation of Coffin Text traditions
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  contradicts · reviews and rejects simple model · Full article and conclusion

  Supports the non-linear interpretation of afterlife access.

• event Expansion and regional variation of Coffin Text traditions
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  contradicts · reviews and rejects simple model · Full article and conclusion

  Supports the non-linear interpretation of afterlife access.

• relationship Expansion and regional variation of Coffin Text traditions — occurred at or involved — Thebes
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  contradicts · reviews and rejects simple model · Full article and conclusion

  Supports the non-linear interpretation of afterlife access.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes religious change · Funerary-text access and critique of democratization

  Supports diachronic interpretation and cautions.

• date assertion Pyramid Texts enter the preserved royal funerary record — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes religious change · Funerary-text access and critique of democratization

  Supports diachronic interpretation and cautions.

• event Pyramid Texts enter the preserved royal funerary record
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes religious change · Funerary-text access and critique of democratization

  Supports diachronic interpretation and cautions.

• relationship Pyramid Texts enter the preserved royal funerary record — occurred at or involved — Saqqara
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes religious change · Funerary-text access and critique of democratization

  Supports diachronic interpretation and cautions.

• relationship Pyramid Texts — documented or interpreted through — Pyramid Texts enter the preserved royal funerary record
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes religious change · Funerary-text access and critique of democratization

  Supports diachronic interpretation and cautions.

• myth interpretation One-time democratization of the afterlife
  Unsupported explanationConfidence in this assessment: ◈ highConfidence in this assessment, not in the proposed story
  informs · directly evaluates interpretation · Full article and conclusion

  Rejects the simple democratization model.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · reviews and rejects simple model · Full article and conclusion

  Supports the non-linear interpretation of afterlife access.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · reviews and rejects simple model · Full article and conclusion

  Supports the non-linear interpretation of afterlife access.

• relationship Research record — proposed memory of
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · directly evaluates interpretation · Full article and conclusion

  Rejects the simple democratization model.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · directly evaluates interpretation · Full article and conclusion

  Rejects the simple democratization model.

• relationship Research record — proposed memory of
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · directly evaluates interpretation · Full article and conclusion

  Rejects the simple democratization model.

• claim Egyptian religion changed through cult centres, syncretisms, royal theology, funerary texts, temple institutions and domestic practice rather than remaining a static list of gods.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ near certain
  supports · supports claim · Method for studying religious change

  Supports the claim and its qualifications.

• entity Coffin Texts
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity · Relevant discussion or corpus description

  Supports the entity and its interpretive limits.

• date assertion Pyramid Texts — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity · Relevant discussion or corpus description

  Supports the entity and its interpretive limits.

• entity Pyramid Texts
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity · Relevant discussion or corpus description

  Supports the entity and its interpretive limits.

• date assertion Coffin Texts — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity · Relevant discussion or corpus description

  Supports the entity and its interpretive limits.