What is afterlife according to the Ancient Egyptians?

To the ancient Egyptians, the Land of Two Fields was a real place. It was a heavenly place. It was the place you went after you died. One of the reasons the god Osiris was so honored in ancient Egypt is because it was Osiris who opened the door to the afterlife for everyone. read more

The ancient Egyptians believed that the god Osiris rose from the dead to judge mankind as god of the afterlife. The god Osiris was constellation Orion the Hunter, and was the constellation of the spring equinox in very ancient times, approximately 4,000 years B.C. read more

According to the Ancient Egyptians, the body was made up of several parts: the ba or soul, the ka or life force, and aj, the force of divine inspiration of life. To survive in the afterlife, the ka needed the corpse to remain intact, and that was only possible through technique of mummification. read more