Depends. If the afterlife works by Egyptian rules and how the body is taken care of can affect the soul in the spirit world then yes. If the soul completely moves on after death, I don't really see why it would be a big deal.

File: D2.jpg (35 KB, 460x663)

35 KB JPG

It's basically recycling. Good for environment.

>>98494442
depends on the kingdom, probably

the ancient necropolis founded by necromancers for the expressed purpose of practicing necromancy safely is likely to be more lenient than the kingdom of life

>>98494442
For purely economic reasons, yes.

>>98494442
1PBTID

>>98494442
From what system?

>>98494442
Depends on the context, which there is none.

>>98494442
No, but you should.

>>98494442
Depends on what setting, which is?

>>98494442
Yes, the topic has been done to death.

>>98495706
Hello???

>>98494468
I like that interpretation. Any good resources on this egyptian afterlife?

>>98494442
That depends, do you consider healing magic and resurrecting the dead -whole- "White Necromancy" a-la first and second edition D&D?
If not, then sure, ban the smelly corpse fondlers.

File: pika pika pi.gif (940 KB, 498x371)

940 KB GIF

>>98495706
>>98496199
aah, no answer because no games...

>>98496284
NTA but I am an egyptiaboo

it changed significantly over the THOUSANDS of years that the egyptian religion existed.
That's the important thing to remember. The unification of the two kingdoms was around 3K BC. The ptolemaic dynasty existed for just under 3 centuries at the end of that. If you time shifted that so that Cleopatra was around "today" then the earliest thing we'd recognise as the Egyptian Kingdom is still ONE THOUSAND BC, further back than the people we think of as the ancient greeks or ancient romans, by at least 500 years.
That's how large a span of history you are fucking dealing with. I know I sound like I'm beating you over the head with a timeline but you need to remember nothing was constant because it was three fucking thousand years.

>Now I can give you a TL;DR of the afterlife

Originally the afterlife seems to have been the purview of royalty, and that changed over time and more people became "able" to access it. The egyptian anatomy of the soul was complex, and also changed over time (again, 3000 years). You would die, your soul would go down into the underworld (called the Duat), but also your shade would emerge from your tomb like a shadow
>fun fact: the book of the dead is not "one book" nor was it called the "book of the dead", the most common coffin text was actually referred to as the Book of Going Forth By Day
So your ghost is sorta bilocating, or your ghost can appear in the surface world while also navigating the afterlife.
The underworld is dangerous. You need magical protection, amulets and spells and incantations, to survive it. You need maps. You need to remember stuff, or to have them on hand. This is why coffin texts were a thing. Buying the materials needed for your afterlife delve.

Whoever reaches the interior of the underworld, you face judgement (if you are allowed to face it; access got looser over time. Again originally eternal life was just for kings. Also Pharaoh is a fun term, more to come)
>pt2

>>98498920
>it changed significantly over the THOUSANDS of years that the egyptian religion existed.
ancient egypt being ancient to the ancient egyptians is one of the wildest things for people to grasp

>>98498920
>a tangent. Pharaoh means "the palace" or "the royal household" not "the king".
It's like how we might refer to "the crown" or a king use the Royal "We". It may have been adopted to avoid referring to female kings as "king", it may have simply been a political or religious taboo.
A lot of the religious and "court" language used in egypt became fixed and separated from the vernacular, the same as you had Court French being used in old england, or medieval use of latin as a religious language. A lot of the magical and religious language is "old" or "middle" egyptian even in the later periods.

>OK back to the afterlife
When your ghost/spirit/soul reaches the place of judgement, you must do many things.
Your heart will be weighted by Anubis against the feather of ma'at (truth)
>another language tangent. By the time of the new kingdom, the word ma'a had lost its feminie -t ending. This is not some psyop plot to turn truth male, it's just linguistic shifts over 3000 fucking years. Ma'at/ma'a is both a deity and a concept.
You know about the heart-feather weighing shtick. If your heart is heavier than the feather of truth, you have been sinful and are destroyed; your heart is fed to the terrible beast Ammit/Ammut which is part lion, part hippo, part crocodile, and all hungry.

You are not done. Before or after this, you also face the forty-two assessors of ma'at, who each preside over a certain crime or sin. You must identify each, greet it by name and origin, and declare that you have not committed the sin over which it presides.

>Hail to thee. Thou art Nefer-Tem, the Beautiful Man who Closes.
>Thou art from Hwat-ka-Ptah, the House of the Soul of Ptah
>I tell thee, I have wronged none, and none say I have done evil things.

forty-two sins, and you have to identify all of these judges and make these declarations of sinlessness to each of them.

When you pass, you reach Aaru, the Land of Reeds, the eternal paradise. Which was also a god. It's complicated.

>>98498968
>The Afterlife is a God
ok I was lying a little.
Like I said earlier, the anatomy of the soul is complex. The "Ka" is represented by this spread/upheld arms symbol , which 4chan may or may not render. Ka is the life-force which separates the living from the dead, and death happens when the ka leaves the body (or vice versa). Other souls or parts of the soul may remain in the body for a time.

Sekhet-A'aru, the field of reeds within the afterlife/underworld, was considered the Ka-soul of the Nile Delta itself, and therefore subject to veneration.

Getting there after you are admitted past the forty-two assessors is also complex, since there are anywhere from a dozen to twenty-one gates, each with a terrible guardian spirit or guardian god. The gates may also be minor goddesses. Many of these guardian gods and gates have weird names that aren't so much names as just descriptive titles.

>Originally, the transit through the gates was done by Kings on a royal boat (which is also the sun) representing night and the trials that the sun faces in the underworld every night.

Then you can rest.

Also, offerings to the dead took several forms.

You could build a tiny model house and place it over a grave, and pour libations into it and leave food on it.
You could also make ritualistic "voice offerings" which took a roundabout form. You state a thing and stating it makes it true. You say, roughly
>The King Makes An Offering to [insert God here]
>That He (the God in question) might make an invocation of a thousand each of [list food, drink, and goods]
>For the Soul of [insert name of the dead person here]

What you're doing there is attaching the name of the dead person you are praying for, to the process where the King would occasionally make a token offering to the Gods on behalf of all dead people, and the Gods would invoke (divine speech = real goods) funerary offerings of food and goods into being in the afterlife for the named dead.

>>98494442
That there's a puckee thread