THE EGYPTIAN
BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BOOK OF COMING FORTH BY DAY. THE COMPLETE PAPYROS OF ANI.
DR. OGDEN GOELET, JR.; DR. RAYMOND O. FAULKNER; CAROL A. ANDREWS; J. DANIEL
GUNTHER; JAMES WASSERMAN. CHRONICLE BOOKS, SAN FRANCISCO: 1994, 1998, 2015.
EGYPTTIAN
CONCEPTS OF THE SOUL AND THE AFTERLIFE
“For the egyptians existence after
death was first and foremost a series of transformation ; we could borrow the
name of Richard Strauss’ great symphony Death and transfiguration to describe
their afterlife experience. But, unlike a symphonic work or a novel, the BD the
primarily a collection of themes, not a consecutive narrative. Written from a
polytheistic standpoint, it Did not have to conform to a single editorial
overview. Death may have been inevitable, but the course of the events
following it was not. As a result, we encounter a bewildering number of forms
that human spirit can assume as they travel through the next world. Yet the decceased are not tourists, expected
to move sequentially through a prescribed course of events . The dead had to
adapt their forms constantly according to the circunstances. The notion of
transformation in the next world was so fundamental that it is the basis for
the usual term for a mortuary prayer, sakh."
This word is sometimes translated as "glorification" or extolation", but its literal meaning is "that which transforms (one) into an akh, "referring to one of the forms of the soul. The BD use several terms to describe the otherworld form of the decceased: ba, ka, akh, the shadow (shut), and others. In In addition to these, spirit forms, the personality of the decceased could be emboried in the heart, ib, and the name, ren.
Coexisting with the predominant concept of the transformation of the human spirit in the nest world was another line of thought, which envisioned life beyond the grave as essentially a continuation of earthly life. According to this viewpoint, the decceased could look forward to a rebirth after death. This is perhaps the reason for the repeated desire to regain the physical capabilities of a living person."
This word is sometimes translated as "glorification" or extolation", but its literal meaning is "that which transforms (one) into an akh, "referring to one of the forms of the soul. The BD use several terms to describe the otherworld form of the decceased: ba, ka, akh, the shadow (shut), and others. In In addition to these, spirit forms, the personality of the decceased could be emboried in the heart, ib, and the name, ren.
Coexisting with the predominant concept of the transformation of the human spirit in the nest world was another line of thought, which envisioned life beyond the grave as essentially a continuation of earthly life. According to this viewpoint, the decceased could look forward to a rebirth after death. This is perhaps the reason for the repeated desire to regain the physical capabilities of a living person."
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