Question 3

There are many different views for different cultures on how we will be received in the afterlife. The Ancient Egyptians believed that the spirit Ca would come and judge your heart. Therefore they would remove your most vital organs, such as the heart brian etc... After the Ca came to judge you it would weigh your heart and if your heart was lighter than a feather you could not move on and instead would live in a world of limbo. If your heart was the same then you were able to move to the next round of the afterlife. This was meeting the Lord and Lady or the underworld:Osiris and Isis. After getting through this the spirit would live in the underworld/ afterlife forever and would fulfill his craft that he had on earth.

The Greeks thought differently about the world afterlife. They believed that right after death you would become a puff of air or even a part of the wind. Then rituals would be performed on the body. Some of the rituals were to dress the body and then have the burial. Many times women performed this task. They believed that you would travel to the underworld where Hades, the brother of the Greek god Zeus lived. Suposibly you would live there forever. The Ancient Egyptians and the Greeks both had very different processes. The Egyptians process was more complicated and there were several different routes you could take. Depending on how you were on earth. While the Greeks believed that they all went to one place, the underworld. Meaning it did not depend on what you did on earth, unless you were a god. A similarity is that the body is buried either way. The differences between these two cultures are drastic.


E.A Walls, Budge. (1895). The book of the dead.


Department of Greek and Roman Art. "Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece". InHeilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dbag/hd_dbag.htm (October 2003)
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