iA<6 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XVI. 



other bodies, and that those of the bad were subject 

 to eternal punishment." The Buddhist and other 

 religions have admitted the same notion of the soul 

 of man passing into the bodies of animals : and even 

 the Druids believed in the migration of the soul, 

 though they confined it to human bodies.* 



FUTURE JUDGMENT. 



The judgment scenes, found in the tombs and 

 on the papyri, sometimes represent the deceased 

 conducted by Horus alone, or accompanied by his 

 wife, to the region of Amenti. Cerberus is present 

 as the guardian of the gates, near which the scales 

 of Justice are erected; and Anubis, "the dh-ector 

 of the weight," having placed a vase representing 

 the good actions t of the deceased in one scale, 

 and the figure or emblem of Truth in the other t, 

 proceeds to ascertain his claims for admission. If 

 on being "weighed" he is "found wanting §," he 

 is rejected ; and Osiris, the judge of the dead, 

 inclining his sceptre in token of condemnation, 

 pronounces judgment upon him, and condemns his 



* Caes. Bell. Gall. lil). vi. " (Druidcs, in Gallia) hoc volunt persua- 

 dcrc, noil interire aninias, seel ab aliis post mortem transire ad alios, 

 atqnc hoc maxime ad virtntem excitari pntant, metn mortis neglecto." 



-j- This symbol is sup[)oscd by Champollion to be a iiuman heart. 

 Tt appears to be a vase containing perliaps the brains and heart, repre- 

 sented within it. 



J Of the |)rinciple of these scales, vide Vol. III. p. 240., and II. 10. 

 The same kind of balance is represented in a (ireek subject in the 

 Archaeologia of Konie of 183.'^, Plate 4-7.; where the ape is seated 

 above, and a figure in the attitude of Osiris sits on a throne iiokliug a 

 l)arred sceptre, siniihu- to the emblem of Stability in the hand of the 

 judge of Amenti. 



^ Conf. Daniel, v. 27. j and Job, xxxi. G. 



