Survey
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony People in most ancient civilizations were afraid of their ______. This was not true in Ancient Egypt. The Egyptians loved their Gods. They had little fear and great wonder. There was one exception, though - the God Ammut. Almost everyone in ancient Egypt was afraid of Ammut! Ammut was the ____________. The ancient Egyptians believed if a person did something bad, their heart would be _______, and the God Ammut might suddenly appear and eat them up! The God Ammut had a big part in the weighing of the heart ceremony. When a person died, the ancient Egyptians believed they travelled to an ____________, a heavenly place where they spent eternity. They had to earn their way. To enter the afterlife, a person had to have a _______ heart. Light hearts were earned from a lifetime of doing good deeds. After somebody died, the ancient Egyptians believed their heart had to be ___________. It had to be lighter than a _________. To find out if a person’s heart qualified for the trip to the afterlife, their spirit had to enter the Hall of Maat. First they had to plead their ____________ to the Gods and their fellow men. Then the God Anubis would lead them into the Hall of ________ and weigh their heart. The God _________ recorded the findings. (In ancient Egypt, everything was recorded and written down.) If a person’s heart was light, they were considered to be pure and free from sin. This meant they had passed the test and entered the afterlife. They were lead by _________ to Osiris. BUT, if a person’s heart was heavy because their deeds were dreadful, the God _________ would suddenly appear ... and eat them up! feather Gods innocence Devourer heavy Maat Thoth afterlife Horus light Ammut weighed