The Beliefs About Ghosts in Ancient Egypt
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There were tons of beliefs related to ghosts in ancient Egyptian cultures.
The most common belief was that there was a continued existence of the soul or spirit, just like what we think about ghosts today.
The soul/spirit had the ability to help or harm people and there might have been the possibility of it being able to have a second death.
These souls were depicted in ancient Egyptian drawings usually as an animal, such as a bird, like how we most commonly think Egyptian drawings are like.
Anyways, there are more beliefs about ghosts and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian cultures but they changed so much in a timespan of 2,500 years that there is no telling how many other beliefs there are.
These many beliefs were recorded in inscriptions, papyrus scrolls, and tomb paintings.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead contains some of these beliefs from different time periods in ancient Egyptian history too.
In this book, some ghosts in artwork were shown as reproductions of people, exactly like the way they looked when they were alive.
Much like the common ghosts we all think of in present-day, who appear as reproductions as when they were living, in every single feature, all the way down to the clothes they wore when they died, the Egyptians also depicted ghosts like this too.
What the ancient Egyptians believed about ghosts and the afterlife also helped create our modern concept of a mummy coming back to life and causing trouble when disturbed.
Even though the people of ancient Egypt would probably have never disturbed a mummy in the sense to see whether it would come alive, this idea helped create a whole genre of horror movies people love watching to this day.
Ancient Egyptian beliefs would help create a lot of what people believe or think about ghosts today.
The most common belief was that there was a continued existence of the soul or spirit, just like what we think about ghosts today.
The soul/spirit had the ability to help or harm people and there might have been the possibility of it being able to have a second death.
These souls were depicted in ancient Egyptian drawings usually as an animal, such as a bird, like how we most commonly think Egyptian drawings are like.
Anyways, there are more beliefs about ghosts and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian cultures but they changed so much in a timespan of 2,500 years that there is no telling how many other beliefs there are.
These many beliefs were recorded in inscriptions, papyrus scrolls, and tomb paintings.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead contains some of these beliefs from different time periods in ancient Egyptian history too.
In this book, some ghosts in artwork were shown as reproductions of people, exactly like the way they looked when they were alive.
Much like the common ghosts we all think of in present-day, who appear as reproductions as when they were living, in every single feature, all the way down to the clothes they wore when they died, the Egyptians also depicted ghosts like this too.
What the ancient Egyptians believed about ghosts and the afterlife also helped create our modern concept of a mummy coming back to life and causing trouble when disturbed.
Even though the people of ancient Egypt would probably have never disturbed a mummy in the sense to see whether it would come alive, this idea helped create a whole genre of horror movies people love watching to this day.
Ancient Egyptian beliefs would help create a lot of what people believe or think about ghosts today.