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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 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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In Eater of Souls Meren finds Akhenaton's death troubling for many reasons. One of which was the level of personal involvement he had with Akenaton, "Then he'd been but eighteen and a prisoner of the heretic pharoah Akhenaten...After killing Meren's father for refusing to adopt the new god. Akhenaton had imprisoned the son and tested him. Beatings, Starvation, threats, nothing had broken Meren,"(31). Akhenoten had been a hated and horrible pharoah, and Meren knew how many people would kill him.
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''(Page 32 "How did one justify allowing a living god, a pharaoh to be killed?" RB)''
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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. 
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''Eater of Souls'' by Lynda S. Robinson
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Manual Page #118
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-Matthew Giordano
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Eater of Souls pg. 31

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Back to Eater of Souls In Eater of Souls Meren finds Akhenaton's death troubling for many reasons. One of which was the level of personal involvement he had with Akenaton, "Then he'd been but eighteen and a prisoner of the heretic pharoah Akhenaten...After killing Meren's father for refusing to adopt the new god. Akhenaton had imprisoned the son and tested him. Beatings, Starvation, threats, nothing had broken Meren,"(31). Akhenoten had been a hated and horrible pharoah, and Meren knew how many people would kill him. (Page 32 "How did one justify allowing a living god, a pharaoh to be killed?" RB) akhenaton.jpg

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http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/akhenaten.html

Eater of Souls pg. 31

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