Egyptian Afterlife

Egyptian View on Afterlife Most of the Egyptian life was preparing for their afterlife. This resulted in the pyramids and other great tombs for the Pharaohs and other nobility. The Egyptians also believed the bodies of the dead had to be preserved if the Ka (indestructible essence) of the person were to live on. The manner in which they preserved these bodies is called mummification. To embalm the mummy the Egyptians first had to remove …

…gods, Osiris, Anubis, and Thoth decided the result of the weighing. If you passed you were allowed to enter the gates of Yaru, but if you failed you heart was consumed by the devourer to be gone forever. With Egypt’s many burial rituals, they had and elaborate system of beliefs to go with them. The afterlife was very important to every aspect of their mortal life, maybe even more important than their mortal life.