Religions of the ancient world, including Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phoenicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome . n of all ranks of the people. Belief in a future life was a main principle ofthe Egj^ptian religion. Immediately after death,the soul, it was taught, descended into the lowerworld (Amenti), and was conducted to the Hallof Truth, where it was judged in the presence ofOsiris, and of his forty-two assessors, the Lords ofTruth, and judges of the dead, Anubis, the son ofOsiris, who w^as called the director of the weight,brought forth a pair of scales, and after placing inone sc
Religions of the ancient world, including Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phoenicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome . n of all ranks of the people. Belief in a future life was a main principle ofthe Egj^ptian religion. Immediately after death,the soul, it was taught, descended into the lowerworld (Amenti), and was conducted to the Hallof Truth, where it was judged in the presence ofOsiris, and of his forty-two assessors, the Lords ofTruth, and judges of the dead, Anubis, the son ofOsiris, who w^as called the director of the weight,brought forth a pair of scales, and after placing inone scale a figure or emblem of Truth, set in theother a vase containing the good deeds of the de-ceased, Thoth standing by the while, with a tabletin his hand, whereon to record the result.^ If the See the Litany of Ra, aud the * Hymns to Osiris,Amen, Amen-Ra, and Ra-Harmachis, published in Recordsof the Past, vol. ii. pp. 105-134 ; vol. iv. pp. 99-104 ; vol. 99-101 ; and vol. viii. pp. 131-134. - Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, vol. v. pp. 314, 315. Re-presentations of the scene are frequent in the tombs, and in the.
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