3 "O you who love life and hate death!" is an inscription that is constantly found on funerary stelae. "Life passes on earth," says King Ahtoi to his son, the prince of Merikar, " but it is not long. Happiness is the memory of it (on earth)... Do not hope for many years, they see 1 life time as [one] hour. They remain (cases) after the death of (a person), put them in a pile next to him. Stay there forever. A fool is he who does what they condemn. But the one who has achieved this without committing sin, he will be like God, walking freely, like the lords of eternity "(PM, 41; 54-57). For the Egyptians, the" free movement "inherent in the gods was the antithesis of the state designated in the texts as b3gi - "to be weakened, lifeless", nny - "to be sluggish, relaxed, motionless, unable to act", wrd - "to be tired". If we try to express in one word the purpose of the secret actions of the funeral cult, which are reflected in the entire complex of Egyptian funeral texts, this word will be an appeal to the deceased: "Rise up!" The indelible belief that, like the sun that passes through the darkness of night and overcomes it, appearing every morning in the eastern sky, the deceased can rise, death can become for him not the end, but the long-awaited rebirth, expected to pass to where, instead of thirst-quenching water, air and carnal pleasures, the deceased will find-3h- state 2, and instead of bread and beer-the world of the heart (htp-ib) (BD, 175, 10-12), the Egyptians carried through millennia. The content of this belief is revealed in texts related to the sacrificial ritual recorded in almost all the royal pyramids on the north side of the burial chamber. During the sacrificial ritual, the "opening of the mouth and eyes" of the deceased Osiris N was performed, the offering of the Eye of Horus to him, as well as the offering of sacred vessels with oil, which, as the expiration of the Eye of Horus, filled the body of the deceased: "Osiris was filled with the Eye of t ... Read more