The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul
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8. — Ram-headed scarabaeus. f THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 33 showing the Httle soul perched by the sarcophagus, touching the mummy, and bidding it farewell before rising to the gods.* In other scenes the soul is O, Fig. 9. — The Ba visiting the mummy on its funeral couch, (From " The Book of the Dead.") depicted as it comes flying from heaven with the sign of life in its hand, and approaching the grave * See The Booh of the Dead, Naville's edition, pis. 4, 97, loi, 104 ; Lepsius' edition, pis.... 33, etc., etc. 3 34 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DOCTRINE OF 1 to visit the mummy ; or as flying down into the vault with the offerings which it had found at the door of the tomb, bringing bread in one hand and a jar of water in the other, as food and drink for the body which once invested it (fig. lo). This conception of the soul as a kind of bird is noteworthy when compared with the ideas which other nations have formed of it. The Greeks sometimes represented the etBcoXov, or soul, as a small winged human figure (fig.
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