Egyptian Ideas Of The Future Life

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Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life is a book written by E. A. Wallis Budge, an Egyptologist and curator at the British Museum. The book explores the ancient Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife and the concept of immortality. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Egyptian funerary rituals, the Book of the Dead, and the role of the gods in the [...] draws on a range of ancient Egyptian texts, including hymns, prayers, and spells, to illustrate the beliefs and practices of the ancient Egyptians. He explains the importance of the mummification process, the role of the tomb, and the belief in the judgment of the soul after [...] book also explores the concept of the ka, or the individual's life force, and the ba, or the individual's personality, and how they were believed to continue after death. Budge discusses the different levels of the afterlife, including the Field of Reeds, where the blessed dead were believed to reside, and the Duat, the underworld where the deceased underwent a series of trials before reaching the afterlife.Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life is an essential resource for anyone interested in ancient Egyptian culture and religion. It provides a fascinating insight into the beliefs and practices of one of the world's oldest civilizations and their understanding of the [...], it is easy to see from the above description of the torments which the wicked were supposed to suffer, that the writer had in his mind some of the pictures with which we are now familiar, thanks to the excavation of tombs which has gone on in Egypt during the last few years; and it is also easy to see that he, in common with many other Coptic writers, misunderstood the purport of them. The outer darkness, i.e., the blackest place of all in the underworld, the river of fire, the pits of fire, the snake and the scorpion, and such like things, all have their counterparts, or rather originals, in the scenes which accompany the texts which describe the passage of the sun through

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781419117374

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

235 x 191 x 7 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Verlag / Hersteller

Kessinger Publishing, LLC