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The Democratization of the Afterlife was a religious transformation during the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt wherein commoners usurped Pharonic privileges and symbolism in their funerary traditions.
Usurpation of Divine Kingship
[edit]The Pharaoh from ancient times was considered to be divine, a living Horus. Toward the end of the Old Kingdom, the dead Pharaoh began to be associated with the god Osiris, the ruler of the world of the dead.[1] This lead to Osiris becoming the god of all necropolises.[2] During the Middle Kingdom, a large number of private votive stele began identifying the dead with Osiris in the same manner.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Trigger, Kemp, O'Connor, and Lloyd. (1983) p. 72
- ^ Shaw. (2000) p. 179
- ^ Shaw. (2000) p. 180
Bibliography
[edit]- Shaw, Ian (2000). The Oxford history of ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280458-8.
- Trigger, B.; Kemp, Barry; O'Connor, David; Lloyd, Alan (1983). Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge University Press.