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Journal As I think about
what my life will be like after death, I make sure to plan on having
everything I need with me. I will have my amulets that are so sacred
to me, I will have my scarabs to protect me and I will worship my Gods with
all of my faith.
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Amulets
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Amulets were small charms that were important to all the Egyptians. They
believed it had enough power to protect them. The Pharaohs, wealthy people,
and even non wealthy people would use it because they thought it would
protect them from anything. They used the Amulets as jewelry. Priests would
stuff Amulets in the mummy wrappings. They would stick over 100 in the mummy
or other places the mummy had treasured. But some would get stolen by tomb
robbers.
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Scarabs
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There was a beetle that
everyone thought carried the sun to the heavens. This beetle was called the
Scarab. All the people would want to use its protection for them to go into
the heavens after they died. The breath of life, as so they said it, was
symbolized by the ankh. The ankh looked like a stone cross with an oval top.
The oval top was kind of big and the whole thing almost looked like a spoon. |
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Afterlife
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The Egyptians believed that after death they
would have to pass many tests while going to afterlife. There was scribes,
someone who writes or records documents as a job, on the tombs and it showed
them weighing a heart on a scale. They would weigh the heart against a
feather and that feather was called the feather of truth. The person who
handled the scale was a god and his name was Anubis. If his heart was light
enough for Osiris, that meaning that they had a good life, then he would let
them have eternal life. |
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Egyptian
Myths and Fables
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One Ancient belief about Osiris (God of Eternal
Life) and Isis his wife is told like this...Osiris was King of Egypt and
was killed by his evil brother Seth. Isis the wife of Osiris found the body.
Seth came back, took the body again and proceeded to cut it up into fourteen
pieces. He then threw them into the Nile River. Isis retrieved all the
pieces and took the form of a bird. With her wings she fanned new life back
into the pieces. Osiris was resurrected and became the god of Eternal life.
Another myth related to Egyptian
Gods is the Journey to the sun god Re'. The Egyptians believed that everyday
Re' would cross the heavens in his magic boat. In the boat are spirits of
Egyptians and gods. At the beginning of the day Re appears and the souls of
the dead are reborn.
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God and Goddesses |
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Osiris
 | God of Eternal Life |
| Father of Horus |
| Head Judge of the Dead |
| Ruled if a person deserved eternal life |
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Anubis
| The god of Embalming |
| Head of a Jackal |
| Caretaker of the Dead |
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Horus
| Son of Osiris and Isis |
| Took the form of a Pharaoh on Earth |
| Head of a Falcon |
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Isis
| Wife of Osiris |
| Mother of Horus |
| Protector of the Dead |
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Hathor
| Head of a cow |
| Goddess of Youth, Beauty, fertility, and
Prosperity |
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