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Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
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Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life

by Budge E A Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Sir

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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. in grateful 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