Of all the ancient cultures, Egypt appears to be the most preoccupied with death. They looked at it more as a continuation of life. There is a distant split in the theory of the afterlife between the commoners and the pharaohs. For the commoners death meant facing judgment according to The Book of the Dead. In the book it explains that in the final judgment, the confessions of the heart will be weighed based on how pure their heart is. The purity is based on a set of 'rules' which are: I have not done iniquity. I have not robed with violence. I have not done violence [to any man]. I have not commeted theft. I have not slain man or woman. I have not made light with the bushel. I have not acted deceitfully. I have not

The inscriptions on the outside of the coffins or tombs were answers to questions the dead would face in the after life. There they go before Osiers (god of the dead) and repeat the inscriptions which is the beginning of the trial of innocence. There innocence is judged just by the weight of there heart, which is why that is the only organ left after mummification. If there heart is correctly balanced, the dead will be provided with a new body and allowed entry to the Field of Rushes and provided eternal sustenance. If the heart is heavy with guilt of breaking one or more of the thirteen others, you are given a second death, devoured by the monster Ament. There is a good depiction of this on page 29, figure 1.15*2 (Humanistic Tradition book.) For the pharaoh, who were considered gods, death did not consists of going through that prosses, or rituals. They were automatically provided with eternal sustenance in the Field of Rushes.

wealth, except with such things as are my possessions.*1 If the commoners live by this code they theoretically get into the Field of Rushes.

uttered falsehood. I have not defiled the wife of a man. I have not stirred up strife. I have not cursed the god. I have not behaved

*1 Adopted by The Egyptian book of the Dead, edited by E.Wallis Budge (secauses, Ney Jersey: University Books, Inc., 1977, pp. 576-577). with insolence. I have not increased my

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