West Civ. Final Exam Question 3

The Egyptian and Greek beliefs of after life are both similar, but both different.  Both believed that the afterlife was decided by the gods. Both civilizations were polytheistic which means the believed in multiple gods. The Egyptians had the God Horus and the Greek god of death was Hades.   The  psyche was the spirit and soul for the Greeks. And the Egyptians called their soul Ka. Both civilizations  had rituals.
       The Greeks anointed the bodies with oil and dressed them with burial clothing. while the Egyptians used things like mummies and pyramids. The Egyptians believed that their soul would be weighed and if lighter than a feather, they would go to eternal life.The Greeks and Egyptians weren't obsessed with death, but rather prepared for it and did what they thought was correct. As you can see the Greeks and Egyptians had both similarities and diffrences.