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| − | The Egyptians believed that death was just an extension of life, if your heart was lighter than a feather when you died. To enjoy the afterlife, your spiritual self had to have a light heart, not just your physical one. Supplies for the afterlife would always be given to the wealthy in order to ensure a peaceful, perfect afterlife. In ''Eater of Souls'', Meren was especially disturbed by Akhenaton's death because he believed that he could have done something to stop the death. He believes that because he did not prevent the death, when he dies and his heart is weighed against the feather of | + | The Egyptians believed that death was just an extension of life, if your heart was lighter than a feather when you died. To enjoy the afterlife, your spiritual self had to have a light heart, not just your physical one. Supplies for the afterlife would always be given to the wealthy in order to ensure a peaceful, perfect afterlife. In ''Eater of Souls'', Meren was especially disturbed by Akhenaton's death because he believed that he could have done something to stop the death. He believes that because he did not prevent the death, when he dies and his heart is weighed against the feather of Ma'tt, "his heart would send the weighing pan crashing to the floor. There the Devouress, Eater of Souls, would snatch it up in her crocodile jaws..." (Eater of Souls, pg32). |
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Revision as of 13:20, 21 April 2015
The Egyptians believed that death was just an extension of life, if your heart was lighter than a feather when you died. To enjoy the afterlife, your spiritual self had to have a light heart, not just your physical one. Supplies for the afterlife would always be given to the wealthy in order to ensure a peaceful, perfect afterlife. In Eater of Souls, Meren was especially disturbed by Akhenaton's death because he believed that he could have done something to stop the death. He believes that because he did not prevent the death, when he dies and his heart is weighed against the feather of Ma'tt, "his heart would send the weighing pan crashing to the floor. There the Devouress, Eater of Souls, would snatch it up in her crocodile jaws..." (Eater of Souls, pg32).
In this image, the Eater of Souls is comparing a spiritual heart and the feather of Ma'at, the goddess whose feather determines if your heart is true and right.
Sources:
http://www.lost-civilizations.net/ancient-egypt-egyptian-afterlife-coffins-mummy-masks.html
Eater of Souls by Lynda S. Robinson
Manual Page #118
-Matthew Giordano
