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Coffin
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Embalmers
will place the pharaoh's mummified earthly form inside a series of coffins
shaped like his body. Workers will then encase the coffins of Pharaoh Ramses
the Great in a stone sarcophagus.
The funeral attendants will convey the sarcophagus to Ramses's tomb, which
has been carved deep into a wall of rock in the Valley
of the Kings, on the western side of the Nile, the land
of the dead, where the sun sinks below the horizon at each day's end.
It is here that the mummies of his father, Seti I, and several of his sons,
are entombed as well.
At the Day of Judgment, the pharaoh will face a council of 42 gods and,
by reciting the Negative
Confession, will declare himself innocent of any serious sins during
his life. Anubis will then place the pharaoh's heart on one side of a scale
with the Feather
of Truth on the other. If the heart and feather balance, Ramses's statements
of innocence will be proven truthful and his soul will be adjudged worthy
of eternal life in the realm of Osiris. If the pharaoh has lied, his heart
will be too laden with sin to balance. In that event, it will be eaten by
Ammit,
the crocodile-headed monster, and the pharaoh will be denied continued existence
in the afterlife.
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