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Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life

By E. A. Wallis Budge

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Contents

    
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PREFACE                                                                                       9

CHAPTER I. The Belief in God Almighty                                        17

CHAPTER II. Osiris the God of the Resurrection                           61

CHAPTER III. The "Gods" of the Egyptians                                   108

CHAPTER IV. The judgment of the Dead                                       136

CHAPTER V. The Resurrection and Immortality                             183

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

 

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The Resurrection of Osiris                                                           16

Osiris-Nepra, with wheat growing from his body                          31

Isis pouring out a libation in honor of the soul of Osiris                32

The Creation                                                                                 43

Osiris seated on his throne by, or above a lake of water              44

Osiris in the character of Menu and Harpokrates, as they

 sat in the disk of the moon                                                           55

Osiris standing between Isis and Nephthys                                  56

Osiris rising from his bier at the command of Horus                     69

Setting up the Tet                                                                          69

The king handing the Tet to Isis                                                    69

The Tet of Osiris                                                                           70

The Tet, from which proceeds "Life"                                            70

Isis suckling Horus in the papyrus swamp                                  79

Osiris Hemka begetting a son by Isis                                          80

Osiris on his bier under which are vases containing

his intestines                                                                              80

The soul of Râ meeting the soul of Osiris in Tattu                     85

Horus and his four sons standing before Osiris and Serapis    86

Osiris in his closed shrine, accompanied by Isis and his

four grandsons                                                                          95

Thoth and Horus binding together the thrones of

Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys                                                         96

Osiris being embraced by Isis and Nephthys                          117

Isis and Nephthys bewailing the death of Osiris                      118

Thoth, the advocate of Osiris                                                  118

The judgment of the dead in the hall of Maâti                         163

The wicked being burnt in a pit of fire                                     164

The deceased being led into the presence of Osiris               173

Osiris seated in judgment on top of a flight of nine steps        174

The Elysian fields of the Egyptians according to the

Papyrus of Nebseni                                                                 197

The "doubles" of Ani and his wife drinking water in

the Other World                                                                      198

Isis giving bread and water to the Heart-Soul                        198

The Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the

Papyrus of Ani                                                                        207

Osiris seated in his shrine at Abydos                                     208

The Elysian fields according to the Papyrus of Anhai           213

The weighing of the heart in the presence of Râ                  24

The deceased setting out for the Other World                      214

The deceased building himself a house in the Other World  214

 

The resurrection of Osiris. From the bas-relief at Philae.