Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
EGYPTIAN IDEAS
 OF THE
 FUTURE LIFE
BY
 E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., LITT.D., D.LIT.
 Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities
 of the British Museum
With eight illustrations
 Third edition
1908
To Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R S., etc., etc., etc. ingrateful remembrance of much friendly help and encouragement


CONTENTS.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Preface
I. The belief in God Almighty
II. Osiris the god of the resurrection
III. The "gods" of the Egyptians
IV. The judgment of the dead
V. The resurrection and immortality
Footnotes
I. The creation
II. Isis suckling Horus in the papyrus swamp
III. The soul of Osiris and the soul of Rā meeting in Tattu. Rā, in the form of a cat, cutting off the head of the serpent of darkness
IV. The judgment of the dead in the hall of Maāti
V. The deceased being led into the presence of Osiris
VI. The Sekhet-aaru or "Elysian Fields"--
(1) From the papyrus of Nebseni
(2) From the papyrus of Ani
(3) From the papyrus of Anilai


PREFACE.
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The following pages are intended to place before the reader in a handyform an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancientEgyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which isderived wholly from native religious works. The literature of Egyptwhich deals with these subjects is large and, as was to be expected, theproduct of different periods which, taken together, cover severalthousands of years; and it is exceedingly difficult at times toreconcile the statements and beliefs of a writer of one period withthose of a writer of another. Up to the present no systematic account ofthe doctrine of the resurrection and of the future life has beendiscovered, and there is no reason for hoping that such a thing willever be found, for the Egyptians do not appear to have thought that it                        
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