weighing of the heart
- We know of the weighing mostly from one of the latest and most popular collections of spells known as the Book of the Dead.
- in the spell 125 of the Book of the Dead, we learn about the final weighing.
- Anubis watches the scales; on the right, Thoth records the results; Amemet, next to Anubis, waits to eat sinful hearts.
- the scales show the deceased heart on the left, and the feather of Maat on the right.
- The soul(heart)'s Ba, is summoned in to the "Hall of Two Truths" where the weighing is to take place. Anubis god of embalming takes him to greet re and his nine gods. then the heart was placed on one side of a balance. The heart was special to the ancient Egyptians it was considered the center of a person's personality, it provided a link, between one's life in this world and the next, it would assure memory of ones earthly identity in the afterlife. the Egyptians took special care that the heart. the deceased was prepared for the weighing also spoken to his heart from spell 30b of the Book of the Dead