the-typhonian:

djehutydevo:

the-typhonian:

Assman, the Mind of Egypt

Ma’at for life.
This funerary text is a good example of how Ma’at developed from being a guarantee of remembrance on this side of the door to guarantee of remembrance AND eternal life at the side of our Gods on the other side.

Yes, that it is. Though, in the book, Assman points out that this demonstrates this chain of thought amongst the Egyptian population. That the world we live in, the land of the living, is triffle. The land of the dead is our true life experiences, and this was just our “getting ready” period for our next life in the Duat, the God’s place of residence. I thought it was very beautiful, but I didn’t post the context that it came from in the book. (I figured people here wouldn’t like it.)