1. Religion in Egypt
standard 6.2.3

2. GOAL: To make your own Book of the Dead in which you will explain Egyptian beliefs about religion and the afterlife.

3. Part 1: In this world

4. Nearly 2000 gods: some for households,
some for cities, some for the whole kingdom.

5. Ka: the spirit.
Hangs around the body and burial site after death. Had same needs as living person.

6. Funerary items help the dead live normally in the afterlife.

7. Mummification: so body wouldn’t decay.
1. Remove the brain by liquifying it.
2. Remove organs (except for heart) and put in canopic jars.

8. Mummification
3. Cover the corpse in natron and let it dry out for seventy days.
4. Wrap the mummy in treated bandages.

9. Average people not mummified. Hot, dry desert took care of it.

10. The sarcophagus: the final resting place.

11. Great Pyramid of Giza

12. Part 2: In the afterlife

13. In the Hall of Two Truths
1. Confront the gods and state your innocence.

14. From the 42 Negative Confessions
I have done no evil against any man, plotted to make another grieve, caused death, hunger, or weeping to others.
I never gave false witness in law courts.
I have not done that which is hated by the gods, or obstructed a god’s image when he came forward in a festival procession.
I have not lessened the corn measure, or tampered with the balance.
I have not deprived children of milk.
I have not stolen cattle from the meadows.
I have not taken fish from holy lakes, or prevented the temple cattle from grazing on my land.
I have not prevented the Nile water from running in channels, or stolen water from a channel.

15. In the Hall of Judgment
2. Anubis weighs your heart against a feather. Heart and feather must weigh the same. Ammit awaits.

16. Ammit the devourer

17. The Book of the Dead: 200 spells, prayers, rituals to help spirit of the dead go through Duat.

18. Duat: the underworld.
An obstacle course of gods and creatures who tested and challenged the spirit of the dead.

19. Aaru: the Reed Fields (the Egyptian paradise). Osiris’s kingdom
Aaru: the Reed Fields (the Egyptian paradise). Osiris’s kingdom. Where you go if you make it through Duat.

20. end

21. Religion in Egypt standard ___________
GOAL: ___________________________________________________________________________________
Part 1: In this world
Polytheistic: had nearly __________________ gods.
Ka: the __________________. Hangs around the body and burial site after death. Had same __________________ as living person.
__________________ help the dead live normally in the afterlife.
Mummification: so body wouldn’t decay.
Remove the __________________ by liquifying it.
Remove organs (except for __________________ ) and put in __________________.
Cover the corpse in __________________ and let it dry out for __________________ days.
Wrap the mummy in treated __________________.
Average people not mummified. Hot, dry desert took care of it.
The __________________: the final resting place.
Great Pyramid of __________________.
Part 2: In the afterlife
In the Hall of Two Truths
1. Confront the gods and state your __________________.
In the Hall of Judgment
2. Anubis weighs your heart against a feather. Heart and feather must weigh __________________. Ammit awaits.
Duat: the underworld.
An obstacle course of gods and creatures who __________________ the spirit of the dead.
The Book of the Dead: 200 spells, prayers, rituals to help spirit of the dead go through __________________.
Aaru: the Reed Fields (the Egyptian paradise). __________________ kingdom. Where you go if you make it through Duat.

22. Religion in Egypt standard 6.2.3
GOAL: To make your own Book of the Dead in which you will explain Egyptian beliefs about religion and the afterlife.
Part 1: In this world
Polytheistic: had nearly 2000 gods.
Ka: the SPIRIT. Hangs around the body and burial site after death. Had same NEEDS as living person.
FUNERARY ITEMS help the dead live normally in the afterlife.
Mummification: so body wouldn’t decay.
Remove the BRAIN by liquifying it.
Remove organs (except for HEART ) and put in CANOPIC JARS.
Cover the corpse in NATRON and let it dry out for SEVENTY days.
Wrap the mummy in treated BANDAGES.
Average people not mummified. Hot, dry desert took care of it.
The SARCOPHAGUS: the final resting place.
Great Pyramid of GIZA.
Part 2: In the afterlife
In the Hall of Two Truths
1. Confront the gods and state your INNOCENCE.
In the Hall of Judgment
2. Anubis weighs your heart against a feather. Heart and feather must weigh THE SAME. Ammit awaits.
Duat: the underworld.
An obstacle course of gods and creatures who TESTED AND CHALLENGED the spirit of the dead.
The Book of the Dead: 200 spells, prayers, rituals to help spirit of the dead go through DUAT.
Aaru: the Reed Fields (the Egyptian paradise). OSIRIS’S kingdom. Where you go if you make it through Duat.