Pre-Death-stination

Welcome, Dear Guests! We knew you’d be visiting this fine dreary night! We also predicted long ago that we were bound to tell you the tale of 3 distinctly different people who seemed destined to meet the end that fate had always had in mind for them. Why...it’s almost as though they had no choice in the matter… like you ...turning up here

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The grave of the writer Mark Twain and his son-in-law Ossip Gabrilowitsch in Elmira, New York.

Rameses I

Abraham Lincoln Tomb Springfield Illiois

Abraham Lincoln's burial

Lincoln's Tomb, Interior

This detail scene, from the Papyrus of Hunefer (c. 1275 BCE), shows the scribe Hunefer's heart being weighed on the scale of Maat against the feather of truth, by the jackal-headed Anubis. The ibis-headed Thoth, scribe of the gods, records the result. If his heart equals exactly the weight of the feather, Hunefer is allowed to pass into the afterlife. If not, he is eaten by the waiting chimeric devouring creature Ammit composed of the deadly crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus. Vignettes such as these were a common illustration in Egyptian books of the dead.

Egyptian Book of the Dead, painted on a coffin fragment (c. 747–656 BCE): Spell 79 (attaching the soul to the body); and Spell 80 (preventing incoherent speech)

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