Egyptian belief and modern thought / by James Bonwick.

  • James Bonwick
Date:
1878
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Credit: Egyptian belief and modern thought / by James Bonwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Teutonic and Scandinavian ideas of Valhalla, or heaven ; where the diversions were slaughtering in battle or hunting by day, and feasting on hog’s flesh at night. On the coffin of Mencheres we read : “ O deceased king, born of heaven, issue of Nout, child of Seb! Thy mother Nout is extended over thee in her name of mystery of heaven.” Upon this picture of the overshadowing of the dead body by Nout, the celestial. Dr. Birch recognizes the doctrine that a man “does not die a second time in the Hades, and the soul comes forth and does as it wishes.” A funeral tablet has this record: “ Thy soul proceeds to heaven to see the disk of the sun ; divine is thy body at the gateway (tomb) with Seb.” The Chaldeans had their “Happy fields,” “Places of heroes,” “ Resting-place of gods,”—where the good are said, in the cuneiform inscriptions, to be “ reclining on couches,” “drinking pure liquors,” and “feeding on rich food.” M. Lefebure, in 1875, gave the following account from the sarcophagus of Seti L, who lived before the age of Moses : “ We see to the left hieracephalic Horus supported on a long staff. Twelve personages carrying, as a Sord, a long serpent (Nenuti) (symbol, probably, of the march of time). The bearers of the cord, those who prepare the fields of the elect, say, ‘Take the cord, pull, measure the fields of the souls who are the elect in your dwellings, of the gods in your abodes, deified elect in the country of peace, verified elect to be in (the enclosures of) the cord ; justification is for those who are there, and there is no justification for those who are not there.’”
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