or gates where you are asked questions. If there's anything LOST has thought me, it's that in ancient egyptian religion, everyone who die go to the world of the dead, Anubis guarding the entrance from living people getting in or dead people getting out, like Cerberus. Right? Right? Have I *beep* up?
shareNot sure about the Egyptians but the ancient Hindu religion did (and does) have the concept of heaven and hell as well as a kind of a gatekeeper.
So, by analogy, maybe the Egyptians had a similar concept.
I'm not any sort of expert, but I have done some study of the ancient Egyptian religion - there were several distinct sects over the thousands of years that each had unique properties - and the more I learned, the more I saw strong parallels between the ancient Egyptian religion, Judaism, and Christianity. Yes, the ancient Egyptians had several versions of heaven (and even a messiah).
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They certainly did believe in it. Why do you think they bothered to mummify their dead and bury them with things they would need and want in the afterlife? They even replaced limbs lost during life with a piece of wood when they were being mummified. Seriously, read up on it.
shareThey had an afterlife very different from the Judeo-Christian one, but they did have an afterlife that would roughly-equate to "heaven."
He was very wrong about the requirements to get in. I've read the entire Book of the Dead (what remains of it) and it reads a great deal like Leviticus mixed with a book of magic spells:
"I have not soiled the crop, I have not shed blood unjustly, I have not..."blah, blah, blah.
There's nothing in there about living a happy life or bringing other people happiness.