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Unformatted text preview: In order to be accepted by the gods the deceased had to first do The Opening of the Mouth, Weighting of the heart, a presentation before Osiris, and then the purging of Guilt. Some acts that were considered sinful are causing someone to suffer, inflicting pain, murder anyone, and not steal. The moral codes in the book of the dead compared to the morality of today are similar because our understanding of what is right and what is wrong are the same. There are many gods mentioned in the book of the dead because one has to prove he is worthy of an afterlife to all of them. When a person dies their body, heart, and spiritual aspects are separated and so they mummify them and the spells are what help them come back together so they could enter the afterlife....
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- Spring '08
- Dr.StevenR.Cartwright,
- History, Osiris, spiri tual aspects, glorious afterlife
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