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Many Egyptians considered the tomb to be a home for the dead, so it was customary to leave offerings near the body of the deceased. [20] Egyptians believed that even after death, one's spirit would live on because the life force was a separate entity that could detach itself from the body.
Crown of justification on an encaustic Fayum mummy portrait with the name Isidora ("gifts of Isis") given in Greek (100-110 CE). In ancient Egyptian religion, the crown of justification (mꜣḥ n mꜣꜥ ḫrw [1]) was a wreath or fillet worn by the deceased to represent victory over death in the afterlife.
The ancient Egyptians had an elaborate set of funerary practices that they believed were necessary to ensure their immortality after death. These rituals included mummifying the body , casting magic spells , and burials with specific grave goods thought to be needed in the afterlife .
Maa Kheru (Ancient Egyptian: mꜣꜥ ḫrw) is a phrase meaning "true of voice" or "justified" [1] or "the acclaim given to him is 'right'". [2] The term is involved in ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs , according to which deceased souls had to be judged morally righteous.
Faulkner, Raymond O., von Dassow, Eva (editors), The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Book of Going forth by Day. The First Authentic Presentation of the Complete Papyrus of Ani, San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1994. Hart, George, A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, Routledge, 1986, ISBN 0-415-05909-7.
The ancient Egyptian concept of the soul consisted of nine separate parts. Among these is the Ba, which is commonly translated into English as "soul".The Ba soul was thought to represent one's psyche or personality and was thought to live on after one's death, possessing the ability to traverse between the physical and spiritual planes.
Raymond O. Faulkner, "The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts", ISBN 0-85668-754-5, 3 vols., 1972–78. The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, Erik Hornung, ISBN 0-8014-8515-0; The Egyptian Coffin Texts, edited by Adriaan de Buck and Alan Gardiner and published by the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. Volume 1, Texts of Spells 1-75
The Duat (Ancient Egyptian: dwꜣt, Egyptological pronunciation "do-aht"), also spelled Tuat, or called Amenthes (Ancient Greek: Ἀμένθης, romanized: Aménthēs) or Te (Coptic: Ⲧⲏ, romanized: Tē), is the underworld in ancient Egyptian mythology. It has been represented in hieroglyphs as a star-in-circle: 𓇽.