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Title: Book of the Dead


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Book of the Dead
  • Egypt had a unique belief system about the soul
    and the afterlife. Humans were two-parted
  • Ba the Body
  • Ka the Soul
  • The Book of the Dead were a series of almost 200
    texts, songs, and pictures written on papyrus,
    individually customized for and buried with the
    deceased in order to ease their passage into the
    underworld.

2
The Book of the Dead
  • The intestines, lungs, liver, and the stomach
    were preserved separately and stored in Canopic
    Jars which were protected by the four sons of
    Horus.

3
The Judgement of the dead in the presence of
Osiris
4
The Final Judgment
  • The deceased in led into the hall of judgment by
    Anubis (God of Mummification) and the deceaseds
    heart (the record of the owners mortality), is
    weighed against a single feather.
  • This feather represents Maat
  • Maat is the principal of truth and order, it
    means what is right

5
  • If the heart and the feather balance, the
    judgment is favorable and the deceased is taken
    to Osiris (God of the Afterlife)
  • If the scale becomes unbalanced then the judgment
    is unfavorable. The heart is destroyed by the
    demon Ammit, leaving the owner with no afterlife.

6
Papyrus from Book of the Dead of Ani
  • Judgment of the Dead in the presence of Osiris

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Book of the Dead of Ani Spell 110
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Ani Tutu
  • Book of the Dead of Ani Chapter 17

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Hunefer
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Hunefer Detail
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Book of the Dead HuneferJudgment of Dead in
presence of Osiris
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Spell 110 Papyrus Book of the Dead of Nakht
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Book of the Dead of Nakht worshipping Osiris
  • Nakht Tjuiu
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