2006-10-06 10:04:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Much of their lives revolved around getting to the afterlife; it was an essential part of their belief system. It makes sense that their art and architecture would express their beliefs and concerns.
2006-10-06 10:08:08 · answer #1 · answered by N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The paintings and decorations have been purposely for the Ba or spirit double and the deceased. between the top clarification why the some pyramids and maximum tombs have been so lavishly adorned with the prayers and incantations from the e book of the lifeless and the pyramid Texts nicely as depictions of the guy of their mortal existence with kin replaced into to help the guy comprehend who they have been and what had exceeded off while they woke.It replaced into theory that the faster they could set up them self and understand what awaited them the less complicated it may be. nutrients and drink have been additionally left to offer them capability and sustenance for their journey to the Duat .. it may virtually be while in comparison with leaving a family individuals photograph album to help orient the awoke deceased man or woman, who it replaced into concept could be perplexed and choose reminding of who that they have been their earthly existence and maximum critically what awaited them, a thank you to get to the Afterworld and what trails and adversaries awaited them. as quickly as the funerary chamber replaced into sealed, it replaced into no longer meant that it ever be entered by using a mortal being. however the Ba could at will freely pass out and in of the tomb in the path of the fake doorways that are latest in pyramid funerary chambers and tombs. .
2016-10-18 22:46:27 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wealthy were very concerned about "taking it with them". So, they recorded in art the stories of their lives and were buried with their possessions. Outside of the tombs the art work was more historical in content.
2006-10-06 10:09:58 · answer #3 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egyptians believe in the afterlife with their own bodies to ressurect together with their wealth and titles. For the diggers, it is wealth excavated aside from fame.
2006-10-06 10:11:44 · answer #4 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they believed in the after-life. The tombs were thought to ensure an ideal existence in the next world.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/DEATH.HTML
2006-10-06 10:21:01 · answer #5 · answered by G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because egypt like all other nations were obsessed with religion and the afterlife. this was their view on it.
2006-10-06 10:07:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should have put more effort into worshiping cats
2006-10-06 10:11:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were obsessed with death.
2006-10-06 10:07:06 · answer #8 · answered by Maria B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋