Well when you died in Egypt you went to the Hall of Judgment on one scale and the Feather of Truth in another to see if you were good when you where alive, and how much honesty you showed when you were alive. The person who weighed your heart, it was the Anubis, the god of the dead. It's a little different from the Greek Myths, but Anubis was not ruler of the Egyptian Underworld.
orisis
According to the myths, your heart was weighted so you could get into the Afterlife. Your heart was put on a scale, and if it weighed more then a feather, you would not get into the Afterlife. If it weighed less then a feather, you would get into the Afterlife..
The 4 sons of HorusThe liver was protected by the man-headed ImsetyThe lungs were protected by the baboon-headed HapiThe stomach was protected by the jackal-headed DuamutefThe intestines were protected by the falcon-headed Qebehsenue
Maat is a goddess of Ancient Egypt.Maat, with help from Thoth, weighed her feather and the heart of the dead. If the heart was heavy and outweighed the feather, it would be swallowed by Ammut. If it weighed the same, the soul was allowed to go on to the afterlife.Read more: What_does_ma'at_do
Anubis was the god embalming and the dead. (the one with the jackal head)
Anubis
orisis
The Jackal headed Anubis is the God of the dead
The tradition of the Judgment of the Dead was introduced after the decrease of the Old Kingdom, it is written in the book of the dead. The heart of the deceased is to be weighed against the feather of truth by the jackal headed god, Anubis, and being recorded by the scribe, Thoth. If their heart is proven to be true, the deceased will continue on the passage to the afterlife and eventually rise to the presence of the god, Osiris, and live forever amongst the gods.
Anubis
A scale, versus a feather.
A scale, versus a feather.
Anubis, the jackal-headed God of Egyptian mythology, is a psychopomp, that is, he guides the souls of the recently departed to the land of the dead.
It was weighed against on a real person to feel pain what is going to haappen to them
A scale ,versus a feather
According to the myths, your heart was weighted so you could get into the Afterlife. Your heart was put on a scale, and if it weighed more then a feather, you would not get into the Afterlife. If it weighed less then a feather, you would get into the Afterlife..
Anubis weighed the heart of the dead aginst the feather of Ma'at, the dead whom he had guided and protected in the Duat.