RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pyramid Texts, Stone Age
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Anubis, the jackal headed guide of the dead. Baboon, a companion or form of the god of wisdom and writing, Thoth, also guardian of the organs of the deceased, associated with judgment, guardians of the lake of fire at the place of judgment in the underworld. Pyramid texts 3 possible destinations for a dead ruler. Coffin texts democratization of the afterlife. Egyptian book of the dead - emphasis on judgment and eternal life in the kingdom of osiris. Neanderthal: 230,000 30,000 bce [the old stone age] Cro-magnon: 30/40,000 7000 bce [middle stone age] begins ca 10,000.