Passage To The Afterlife

One strange thing about the Ancient Egyptians is that they lived to die. They tried to live their lives as best they could so that the could die and let their two spirits, the Ba and the Ka out of the body and be free. Before that could happen they had to read the passages out of the Book of the Dead. Let's pretend for a second that you are an Egyptian living in 3100 B.C. and you have saved up enough money to buy the book of the dead. Inside the book of the dead, there are 42 negative confessions that you have to make.

42 confessions

If you lied you would be reincarnated and have to try again. But if you didn't lie you would go to the Weighing of the Heart. It was ordered by Maat, the goddess of truth and justice, the heart was weighed by Anubis, and Thoth would write down the results. A strange thing about the ceremony is that there is a baboon on top of the scale. The scale weighs the heart of the person to a feather and if it's heavier than the feather, Ammit the Devourer would eat the soul. If it's lighter, it's empty of evil and they would become a free spirit and their journey would be over.