The Story Of The Afterlife.

Once upon a time in the ancient kingdom of Egypt, there lived a boy named Abrax who used to live with his parents and used to help them in planting crops on a day to day basis and then used to sell them in the local market. They used to plant their crops along the River Nile. On one such day, while planting crops and tending to the field, Abrax’s father dies due to tuberculosis. Abrax and his mother very heartbroken and his father was mummified by a team of priests.

After about 2 years, Abrax’s mother also died. She died due to the depression of losing her husband and she too was mummified. Now Abrax was an orphan. He didn’t know what to do. He didn’t know who to seek help from. So, with whatever money he had left he bought some new seeds and continued with what he knew best. He planted and sold crops and with the money, he earned he bought some food and bought some new seeds and continued with this lifestyle. Later on, in his life, he married the woman of his dreams and had two kids. His kids helped him in his profession and later died at the age of 47. Before his death, he had told his kids to mummify his corpse by the royal team of priests.  Now after his death, his journey to the afterlife begins. The royal team of priests mummify his corpse and remove every organ except the heart, the seat of emotion, memory, and intelligence. It's then stuffed with a salt called natron and wrapped in resin-soaked linen. In addition, the wrappings are woven with charms for protection and topped with a heart scarab amulet that will prove important later. 

The goal of this 2-month process to preserve Abrax’s body as an ideal form with which his spirit can eventually reunite. But first, that spirit must pass through the Duat or the Underworld. This is a realm of vast caverns, lakes of fire and magical gates, all guarded by fearsome beasts, snakes, crocodiles, and half-human monstrosities. What’s worse is that Apophis, the serpent god of destruction lurks in the shadows waiting to swallow Abrax’s soul. Fortunately for Abrax, he memorized the particular spells, codes, and prayers he thought his spirit might need.

Equipped with his arsenal, he repels the monsters’ acts, and stealthily avoids Apophis to reach the hall of Ma’at, the goddess of truth, and justice. Here Abrax faces his final challenge. He is judged by 42 assessor gods who must be convinced that he has lived a righteous life. He approaches each one, addressing them by name, and declaring a sin he has not committed. Among these negative confessions, he proclaims he has not made anyone cry, is not an eavesdropper and has not polluted the Nile. But Abrax did not live such a perfect life and that’s where the heart scarab amulet comes in. It's inscribed with the words,” Do not stand as a witness against me”, precisely so his heart doesn’t betray him by recalling the time he listened to his neighbor’s fight or washed his feet in the Nile. Now it’s Abrax’s moment of truth, the weighing of the heart on Anubis’ balance. If his heart is heavier than the ostrich feather, weighed down by Abrax’s wrongdoings, he will be devoured by the monstrous Ammit. But it is not so. His heart is lighter than the feather and he is eligible to enter Aaru or heaven. There he sees his long-lost parents and hugs and kisses them. But in heaven, there is work to be done. So he starts cultivating a piece of land alongside his parents.