must take thy way to the land whence none return. Good for thee then an honest life. For he who loveth Right is blest.
'Brave nor coward flee the grave. Proud and humble meet one fate. Give, then, freely, as 'tis meet. Isis will bless the good. Happy shall thine old age prove.'
The memorial chambers in which these
feasts were celebrated were adorned with pictures
and carving representing the familiar
scenes of daily life, but in the gloomy recesses
beyond mystic and awful scenes are depicted.
The representations of the gods, not often met
with in earlier times, had now become common
and familiar; and so does Amenti itself cease
to be the 'hidden' world, and the scenes and
events of the life after death appear in visible
though mystic shape. The Egyptian from of
old believed in the judgment before Osiris, but
now it was depicted. The heart is seen
weighed in the balance; Osiris is enthroned
as judge; Thoth records the result.[1] The
trials that await the spirit take bodily form as
foul and hideous monsters that must be encoun-*
- ↑ I am not sure at how early a date the judgment scene is depicted in any existing funeral papyri; but I believe there is no doubt that neither that nor any 'other world' scene occurs in the tombs of the earlier dynasties, so far as they are yet known.
