The Western Land
The West, where the sun sets, is the realm of the dead. This teaches that death is not an end but a journey to another realm of existence.
The West, where the sun sets, is the realm of the dead. This teaches that death is not an end but a journey to another realm of existence.
I go to the beautiful West, to the land of the justified. I set like the sun to rise again.
Funerary Geography
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- What ancient Egypt says about grief
The dead were called westerners: they went where the sun goes, a direction anyone can watch every evening. The cemeteries were built on that bank, so grief was given a compass bearing and a place you could walk to.