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Book Of The Dead: Egyptian's Guide To After Death

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The Book of the dead was the Egyptian’s guide to the afterlife, and may be the world’s first religious document. The Egyptians believed in a vast and intricate afterlife, and each mummified corpse was expected to resurrect in another world. There was only one guide, Book of the dead, that was meant to aid the deceased. It was a guide to an immortal life, and it was meant to tell the deceased what to do in the afterlife.

I believe the Egyptians developed this complex system to demonstrate how the soul will begin a new journey after death in an afterlife. The God, Anubis, was involved with an important ritual – “the opening of the mouth.” This ritual also symbolically opened the eyes and even ears. I believe this is a spiritual awakening
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