Journey To The Afterlife

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The Egyptians spend their whole lives trying to be the best person they can possibly be so at time of judging they can honestly say they committed little to no sins. Once a person is dead his soul is “led before the god of the dead, Osiris” (Roberson) and a “panel of forty-two gods” who would “challenged his virtue” at the Hall of Two Truths (Journey to the Afterlife). In front of these gods “the deceased must proclaim the sins he didn’t commit” in his past life (Journey to the Afterlife) and his heart is weighed “against the principle of cosmic order, Ma’at,” (Roberson). If in his past life the decease “contributed to the maintence of order, the heart would strike a balance with Ma’at” it was considered “a successful judgement” and the deceased