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The Ancient Egyptian culture was a very interesting thing, but the most interesting thing to me was the afterlife.
The first part of the journey to the afterlife was the preparation. To prepare for the afterlife, the Egyptians would put cloths, food, jewelry, and toys in the sarcophagus so that they would have everything they needed in the afterlife. They would also sing hymns, prayers, spells, and death songs to the mummies before putting them in a special book called, The Book of the Dead. They would also put little wooden servants that would come to life in the afterlife in the sarcophagus.
The second part of the journey to the afterlife was to meet the gods and goddesses. Fourteen of the gods and goddesses would count all of the good deeds the people had done in their life. Then the fourteen gods and goddesses would send the person to Anubis, a very high power god. Anubis would take the persons heart and weigh it against the feather of Ma’at, the goddess of truth and justice.. If the heart was heavier then the feather, then that meant that the heart was heavy with evil. The god Ammit, who had a crocodile head, would eat your heart and you could not go to the afterlife. If the feather of Ma’at weighed more than the heart, that meant that the heart was light with good deeds and truth and you could continue to the afterlife.
The third and final part of the journey to the afterlife is the afterlife. In the afterlife, you were spoiled and could do anything you pleased. You would live in heaven. But, if your wooden servants did not come to life in the afterlife, you would have to farm and work for the gods.
All in all, the afterlife in the Ancient Egyptian culture is very interesting to me because the Egyptians belived in the afterlife and today the thought of life after death is only a story.