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Soul-weight

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The idea that a life can be weighed after death. Egyptian judgment scenes are one famous house; not a universal scales myth.

Egyptian religion

  • Soul-weight appears in Egyptian religion.

    The Book of the Dead places the weighing of the heart against Maat’s feather as the judgment of the dead. Egyptian soul-weight speech, not Qur’anic last judgment and not a market scale alone.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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sources

  • Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)

    Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.