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If you enjoyed Origins and especially the Duat scenes, you might enjoy reading more about it. Eric Hornung’s The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife is a good starting point. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is also very good. It has photos of the papyrus with the translation in English. (Amazon links for convenience, try to find them at a library of course.)
Nefertiti’s afterlife is the most true to the Egyptian conception of the Elysian Fields. It perfectly captures what Egyptologists find captivating about this stuff. If it grabs you on a visceral level, you might be an Egyptologist at heart. Feel free to ask me for new or different sources.
Would maybe start with an overview on underworld texts
Amduat and Amduat explained
Pyramid Texts
Book of the Dead (very large pages with full color plates of the Ani papyrus + translations)
Coffin Texts
Book of Gates and Book of Gates explained
Some of these may be available for PDF download elsewhere, if you search by ISBN.
Maybe Erik Hornung's "The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife" could help?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ancient-Egyptian-Books-Afterlife/dp/0801485150
It's got a chapter on the Amduat (Eg. Imy Duat, I think? lit, "The Things of the Underworld"), and a chapter on the Book of Gates. From what I understand, they're kind of similar, in that the Book of Gates follows the progress of a soul through the underworld after death, where the Amduat follows the journey of Ra through the underworld each night, dividing the journey into twelve hours, each hour being a different district of the underworld. It actually looks like a pretty comprehensive overview from the ToC shown on Amazon.
Plus, as a special bonus, you get the Litany of Re, the Book of the Heavenly Cow, and the Book of Traversing Eternity. Fun reading!
The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife by Erik Hornung.