Journey to the land of the dead

Journey to the land of the dead

Since the soul originates from the sun, it seeks to return to it after death in order to unite with this most important deity of Ancient Egyptian culture. Once it flies into the sky, the soul of the deceased enters the ship on which the sun floats in the sky and starts a journey in which it will experience all the transformations the very sun god Ra goes through.

Once the ship leaves the western horizon, which symbolises the entrance into the land of the dead (eg. Amenti), the sun is transformed from a falcon-headed man to a ram-headed man and in that shape travels though the underworld which is actually the body of Nut - the goddess of the sky.