Greeks and Egyptians had very different ideas on what happens after you die. Greeks believe that all of the dead go into the Underworld with Hades. Egyptians however believe that there is a resurrection and that the soul lives on immortality.
The Greeks believe that as soon as a person dies, their spirit leaves their body in a puff of air. Relatives of the deceased conducted elaborate burial ceremonies. The body was dressed and put on display for relatives and friends to come and mourn. Then they were buried.
The Egyptians on the other hand emptied the body completely and put everything in jars. They believed that the soul was still with the body, so they painted the inside of the tombs with things the dead people once enjoyed so the soul would get to wander around and look at everything.
For the Egyptians, this was sort of a resurrection into the afterlife. Where the ka was given eternal life.
ReplyDeleteFor the Greeks, yes, the other world was a place full of the shades of mortals. Sort of an eternal limbo.