Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs
183Egypt Reaching for Deity
4 Mar 2024
27:54¶ 87
“Meanwhile, Horus sets about taking down Set, and that’s another story where the virgin-born child comes back and destroys the bad guy, and the…”
28:48¶ 89
“What the Egyptians added was, “But you need magic and you need to preserve the body. Don’t just bury it so you know where…”
29:34¶ 91
“What we have seen in the excavations, especially those around the Great Pyramid, is that although the pharaoh could afford to do this in…”
25Resurrection and the Cult of the Dead
21 Jun 2020
9:27¶ 27
“But see what just happened. Resurrection now means not the rising again the flesh, but it means the preservation of the soul, or the…”
9:52¶ 28
“Sometimes you’ll run into people – and your Horus comment is much to the point here – who will say, “Christianity was just copying…”
11:12¶ 31
“Now when Egyptians died, if their bodies could be preserved here, their souls could pass on and go and stand before Osiris. Osiris would…”