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While I finish the Enchantress, the last book (I expect), of Nicholas Flamel's saga, and as it is full of mythology, I let you a little information about the Egyptian Mythology which is interesting, at least for me.
I hope you like it! Meanwhile I'll keep reading.
The first men's Gods were the forces of nature. The Ancients Egyptians deified those features of nature they feared or got disconcerted with. Their Gods had animal and human forms and also its qualities; they got angry, fought with each other, had kids and even fell in love.
The Egyptians divided the world in 3 parts:
1.- Heaven (Nun): God's dwelling. Nut, its heavenly Goddess, the Elder who gave birth all the Gods, was symbolise with her back bended covering the Earth.
2.- Earth: Human's dwelling, the house of Geb the Inventor, who is symbolise as a man laying under Nut.
3.- The Beyond (Duat): The kingdom of the Deads, where Horus and afterwards Osiris ruled. Ra went through it every night in his solar rowboat and it was a place where the spirits of the dead walked avoiding dangers.
Egyptian mythology exists since the pre-dynastic era until the imposition of Christianity, when its practice was forbidden by Justiniano I in the year 535. In this long period of time the Gods and Goddess combined and mixed between them and became new deities. Because of the Helenic influence upon Egypt, the Gods who remained were Osiris, Isis, Horus and their enemy Seth.
Life after Death
The initial belief of the immortality of Gods and Pharaohs, was after extended to the rest of the Egyptians. That's why they practised the embalm and mummification with the idea of preserve the body integrity in its future life.
The Ancients Egyptians considered that human spirit was defined by 3 forces:
1.- Ba: The living force of every dead person, the spiritual personality.
2.- Ka: The vital force, a bite of the universal and immortal principle of life.
3.- Aj: The supernatural spiritual force.
According to their beliefs, the spirits of the Deads were carried by Anubis to the hall where the Trial took place, "The Room of the Two Truths". The heart of the Dead (symbol of its morality), was weight in a scale against a feather which represented Maat (Truth, Justice and Cosmic Harmony). If the income was favourable, the Dead was taken before Osiris in Aaru; but, Ammut (the Heart Eater), symbolised as a mixture of crocodile, lyon and hippopotamus, destroyed those hearts whose sentence turned out negative, blocking its immortality.Seguir a @Nekitosayuri
