KM+society+afterlife?

= After Life in Ancient Egypt. = = = ﻿Death in ancient Egypt was was the journy to a happy life in a better place with the gods. It was not considered as the 'end'! The Egyptains believed that the human body contained three soals (ka, ba and akh). THey would be reunited in the next world only if the body remained intacted! The dead person would only be able to live in the after life if the body was fully complete.

The priests would pull out the major organs. They used a hot stick to pull out your brain through the nose.They then stuffed the body with herbs, salts and linen and saw dust then they wrapped it with bandages and amulets. They didn't want to keep the body the same forever but to creat the 'perfect body' that would/could survive forever. The priests would finally preform the retual of opening the moth of the body! This was doen because it let the body talk in the after life as well as leting the person eat.

The next life was thought to be better then this one and would be wonderful. The dead would still need to eat and drink in the next world so they fill the tombs with food and wine to make a pleasurable experience for them. They also placed games and scripts so the could entertain themselves.

'Ka' soal was the 'life force', it was sustained by food and waterleft in the tomb or drawn on the walls.The 'ba' could move around, in and out of the body. It could go into the world of the dead and back into the world of the living! The 'ba' had to come back to it owner to survive so the dead were decorated to resamble it's owner so the 'ba' wouldn't get lost. 'Akh' was part of the soal which let the person travel to the world of the dead.

The ancient Egyptians believed that the dead had to go through a judgment hall were the great god Anubis (the god of mummification) would preform a retual. The heart og the dead person would be wieghed against a feather. If the person was evil his/her heart would be heavy, but if the persons heart was pure and they did lots of good their heart would be light. If the heart outwieghed the feather the creature Ammit would eat it. Ammit was a creature combined of a crocodile, a lion, and a hippopotamus. If the heart wieghed less then the feather it's owner would make his/her way to the next life!

In the past bodies were died out stuffedand then went through a complex process to ensure the body (the died person) would have a woderful after life. Now we really only read their will and burry them in a cemetery. They process in which bodies were burried before was so hard and had so much in need to be done that I'm really suprised at how they got it all done!

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