How many judges read a persons sins in the Egyptian afterlife?
THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD The Egyptian Book of the Dead, and details the correct way to live in order to achieve immortality. This book instructed the citizens of Egypt to spend their lives preparing for the after-life – by learning and memorizing this Book of the Dead, which contained the correct procedures for the attainment of eternal life. The correct chants, the correct bread, the correct wine and beer, the correct direction in which the correct chants were to be performed by the departing soul. For after death the person’s soul was believed to enter the Hall of Double Justice. This was an examination room which contained two chambers. The first chamber held forty two judges, each carrying a sharp sword, who examined particular aspects of the person’s conscience. If the person mispronounced just one of these judges’ names, or failed to be able to name them all correctly, or was found wanting in the way that they had lived their life, then any one of the forty two judges could
