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  • The Egyptians knew that only the magic of the pharaoh and the priests

  • could carry out supernatural deeds and acts.

  • It was thanks to that magic that the universal order was maintained.

  • But its power could also help man to achieve his longed for desire.

  • The deceased had to be able to reach the world of the gods.

  • If they thought he had gathered enough merits

  • they would grant him the much desired eternal life.

  • But he had to be prepared for the journey.

  • The ancient Egyptians showed great detachment from earthly life;

  • they considered it a brief transit on route to eternity.

  • In order for that to be possible,

  • the human being had to be prepared for that transit.

  • Therefore, the Egyptians deducted that the human body

  • had to be made up by elements that would adapt to both worlds -

  • some material and others immaterial.

  • At the beginning of creation,

  • when the Demiurge creates human beings,

  • he gives them a body with a series of fundamental elements,

  • so they can face all their earthly and spiritual needs.

  • Prof. Dr. Dietrich Wildung

  • "What we nowadays call the psychosomatic state,

  • was referred to in ancient Egypt through several terms:

  • first there was a "Ka", and then a "Ba".

  • And there's an entity called "Ach"

  • Some of them are connected to the physical survival after death,

  • and others to the immortality of the soul.

  • They're complex visions that differ greatly from our western line of thought

  • in which we like everything to have its precise name."

  • The idea of mummification was the same as that of the divine statues in the temples.

  • The statue served as material support to the worshiped god,

  • and was a link between the two planes of existence.

  • In order to establish communication,

  • his other material self had to be present.

  • Following that criteria, the Egyptians considered that the earthly body

  • also had to be preserved eternally by that process,

  • in order for the spiritual body to ensure its eternity in paradise.

  • Once embalmed, the deceased had to be prepared for the sacred journey

  • Prof. Dr. Dietrich Wildung

  • "In what concerns the burial ceremonies

  • as they are described in many tombs and papyruses

  • a crucial act is what is called 'the opening of the mouth'.

  • The priest symbolically opens the mummified deceased's eyes,

  • nose and mouth, reviving his senses.

  • The deceased can once again see

  • smell

  • breath and talk.

  • He regains the ability to use the senses beyond the earthly life,

  • and that regained ability will work for all eternity.

  • The deceased can live eternally.

  • The ceremony would take place in the first courtyard of the tomb,

  • where a series of purification rituals were carried out.

  • After that,

  • a curious dramatization would take place in the sarcophagus room.

  • One of the priests would play the role of the deceased

  • and had to be awakened by the deceased's son.

  • Some interesting ritual instruments were used,

  • in the shape of adzes, knives and cotton swabs.

  • They would be taken to the mouth, eyes, ears and other vital parts of the deceased,

  • in order to revive his capacities in the afterlife.

  • Once in the afterlife, the deceased had to face the judgment of Osiris

  • the god of resurrection.

  • Before forty-two judges, he had to prove his moral integrity;

  • what is called the negative confession of sins.

  • Alfonso Martín Flores

  • "Along with the declaration of innocence of the deceased's judgment,

  • another important episode that seems to happen in the room of truth,

  • or in the room of justice,

  • is the weighing of the heart.

  • In it, Osiris is standing under a dossal

  • and there's a scale placed before him in which the heart will be weighed.

  • Several deities are present, like Horus or Anubis,

  • whose role is to accompany the deceased up to where the scale and Osiris are."

  • The weighing of the heart

  • consisted basically of placing this organ in one of the pans of the scale

  • and weighing it against the feather of Maat -- the goddess of truth and justice.

  • If the deceased's sins weighed more than the feather,

  • he was devoured by Ammit

  • a monster that was part hippopotamus, part crocodile and part lion.

  • That entailed spending eternity as a 'non - being',

  • condemned to the punishment of the Egyptian hell.

  • If his heart weighed less than the feather,

  • the deceased was declared justified and blessed.

  • From that moment on, he would live a placid existence in the afterlife,

  • alongside Osiris.

  • The magnificent constructions that we see today along the valley of the Nile

  • have undoubtedly achieved the purpose of their creators.

  • The ancient settlers of Egypt loved the earthly life's beauty,

  • but only as a brief transit en route to the true immortal existence.

  • To please the gods, they built to their scale,

  • designed their temples and tombs with mathematical perfection

  • in their shapes and proportions,

  • and aligned their contours with the sun

  • and other heavenly bodies.

  • Their obsession was to maintain cosmic order at all costs;

  • they could not permit everything to return to the primeval chaos.

  • To that end they learned to use language

  • and the magic power of the gods,

  • and communicated with them.

  • They discovered where the sun went at night

  • and how it managed to come out each morning.

  • And, most importantly, they discovered how to access the underworld

  • to be alongside the gods for all eternity.

  • Magic, science and religion

  • represent the nature of man.

  • His way to reveal himself before the terror of nothingness.

  • The struggle to penetrate the mysteries of his own existence

  • and those of the universe.

  • It's a mixture of strange seduction and scary unease

  • that not only makes him aware of his insignificance,

  • but also allows him to feel proud

  • of his humble human condition.

The Egyptians knew that only the magic of the pharaoh and the priests

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    Xiaodan Xu に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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