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Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt

CHAPTER III
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They were weighed by the god Thoth, who consigned them to their future abode according to the verdict of the scales.

The sinful Soul was handed over to the cynocephalous-ape assessors of the infernal tribunal, who hunted and scourged it, after first changing it into a sow, or some other impure animal.

The righteous Soul, on the contrary, passed in the fifth hour into the company of his fellows, whose task it was to cultivate the Fields of Aalu and reap the corn of the celestial harvest, after which they took their pleasure under the guardianship of the good genii.

After the fifth hour, the heavenly ocean became a vast battlefield.

The gods of light pursued, captured, and bound the serpent Apapi, and at the twelfth hour they strangled him.


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