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The novel "Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life" is a comprehensive study of ancient Egyptian religious texts that persuades the reader that the Egyptians believed in a single God who was the maker of the heavens, earth, and underworld as well as the sky and the sea, men and women, animals and birds, fish and creeping things, trees and plants, as well as the incorporeal beings who served as the messengers to the underworld. E. A. Wallis Budge, a prominent Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the illustrious British Museum, provides an interesting insight into the religious practices of the ancient Egyptians. explains the enigmatic rituals of the ancient Egyptians, including mummification, and their religious tenets. Osiris, the god of the afterlife and the underworld, Ra, the solar god, and other lesser deities. This book compiles all of the tales, theories, and ideas that existed in ancient Egypt regarding the afterlife. It can be extremely challenging at times to reconcile the statements and beliefs of a writer from one period with those of a writer from another due to the size of the literature in Egypt that deals with these subjects and the fact that, as was to be expected, it is the result of several thousands of years.