Egyptian journey to the afterlife?

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the steps to get to the weighing of the heart

Answer 1

Check out the "Egyptian Book of the Dead", or more correctly, the "Book of Coming Forth by Day", at
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/egyptian/bookodead/

Answer 2

1.Mummification:
a)Remove the internal organs by incision and pull the brain through the nostrils on an iron hook. Internal organs are placed in canopic jars, each with the head of the proper guardian
Imsety (man-headed): liver
Hapi (baboon-headed): lungs
Duamutef (jackal-headed): stomach
Qebehsenuef (falcon-headed): intestines
b)Replace the heart with the carved replica of a scarab (the dung-beetle, symbolizing the recycling transactions between life and death).
c)Rinse the body cavity with palm wine.
d)Reshape face and body as necessary to repair damages caused by the final illness, replace eyes with onions.
e)Place aromatic substances within the body, sew it up, cover with natron ("divine salts") and allow seventy days for drying and other preparations.
f)Wash the body, wrap in undercoated linen sheets (several layers), draw facial features in ink to recreate the appearance of the living person.

2.Place in a tapered coffin and the coffin into a sarcophagus (stone vessel).

3. Have a funeral procession where professional (paid) mourners would dress in blue and take the body across the Nile to be buried on the same side that Ra (the sun god) would rest at night

4.Add objects to the tomb that could be useful to the deceased in the next life. Be sure the person has Book of the Dead which are scrolls that give the "rules and directions" of the afterworld (not to be confused with the "evil" book of Universal's Mummy Movies) as well as ushabti (small statues of people who would come to life in the afterworld and serve you), and a statue or picture of yourself.

(The statue of yourself was very important as the KA or "living spirit" could travel from afterlife to this one through the nose of the statue - this is why so many Egyptian statues have broken noses - their enemies knew it was cruel to stop the spirits from returning )

5. Once the tomb was sealed (or body buried if you didn't have the money), the Ka would travel to see Anubis who would measure the heart against the weight of a feather. (By the way, a scarab beetle could be used to trick the scale, so if you had evil deeds in this life, you'd WANT to be buried with scarabs )

6. If the heart was pure and had "feather weight" you were asked questions, which the Book of the Dead would help you answer; get these right & you were allowed to travel to the land of Osirus. If the heart was too heavy (with sins), then it was fed to Ammit - a god who sat by the scales - who was was part crocodile/part leopard/part hippo

Good stuff!