1. Preparing for Eternity

2. Five Parts of the Individual
1. KA Life force – Soul
2. BA Personality – Spirit
Able to visit the living world but must return at night. Human-headed bird.

3. Five Parts of the Individual
3. Akh Unification of
KA/BA
4. Ren Name
5. Shuwt Shadow
Both Ren and Shuwt protect the individual.

4. Khnum – Creator God
Ram Headed God Khnum molded every person from clay at birth. There is a spiritual replica – KA free to wander in the tomb. Also known as Kaw.

5. Ankh
Symbol of eternal life. The gods are often seen holding an ankh to someone's lips this is considered to be an offering of "The Breath of Life". The breath you will need in the afterlife.

6. Life After Death 2. The KA had to be supplied with substance.
1. Only possible if body is pristine
2. The KA had to be supplied
with substance.
3. The deceased’s name had to
be commemorated in prayer.

7. Mummification The God Anubis
Remove internal organs
dehydrate body with
natron (sodium)
anointed with aromatic
oils/resin wrap
70 days to do this –
mourning costs

8. Anubis God of Mummification
Black Jackal
Patron of Embalming
Keeper of Poisons

9. Spirit – What is this called?
Journey hazardous
Equip the dead with magic – Amulets
Heart Scarab – weighed
Prevalent in funerals as a symbol of rebirth
Spirit is BA and Soul is KA
BEETLE (kheper)

10. Power of the Pharaoh Since the pharaoh was a god, absolute power
Senwosret III, one of Egypt’s most effective Kings.
Since the pharaoh
was a god,
absolute power
on earth.

11. Ba – Protecting the Dead
“Oh my heart which I had from my mother, Oh my heart which I had upon Earth, do not rise up against me as a witness in the presence of the Lord of Things.”
Chapter 30 The Book of the Dead

12. Osiris Lord of the Underworld
Also god of fertility and agriculture
Father to Horus
Osiris: son is Horus

13. Horus falcon-headed form
Wears a double crown

14. The Book of the Dead

15. Maat – Owner of the feather of truth
Anubis was responsible
for weighing the heart
of the deceased against
the feather of truth.

16. Devourer of the Condemned Dead
Waits hungrily for those hearts that are heavy with sin!!! Monster Ammut

17. Monster Ammut Head of a dog or crocodile forelegs of a lion
hindquarters of a hippopotamus
Into the jaws heart of the deceased was destined to fall if it was sinful!

18. Ammut
Closure: What prediction did you make for the creatures that exist in the underworld? Why these three animals?
Alligator; Lion, Hippo