Show Religious Thought of Ancients Traced to 4 OlDO B B. C. C by fey Sayan Savan Mans Man's oldest thoughts on imm immortality immortal Immortal- I fly ity are cl chiseled on the stone walls of five royal tombs in Egypt Dr George I S. S Duncan Egyptologist of ot American university believes These five live royal pyramids that contain contain con con- tain the oldest religious beliefs known date back to about 2600 B. B C. C The i iI I thoughts expressed there are far older older old old- er than the pyramids themselves The Egyptian workmen who chiseled the thelong thelong thelong long passages were ere recording the Egyptian Bible which priests had been reciting for unknown centuries Dr Duncan who has studied the inscriptions for t twelve elve years says allusions in some of the texts show how them to be bo at least as old as B. B C C. Dr Duncan stresses the point that the early Egyptians taught Immortality immortality Immor immor- in the most explicit terms Written on tho the tombs for tor their comfort ort and reassurance were such lines as ns The immortal part goes to the sky the mortal part goes to the earth Though thou steepest thou again though thou diest thou livest again Scores of passages describing the journey of the future world and the life there are cited by Dr Duncan who considers that these oldest conceptions conceptions conceptions con con- of or the immortal life must have influenced the Hebrew and Greek ideas of the subject I The journey to the next world was over water and by means of rafts or I a ferryboat tho the Egyptians held Thi also established the idea that i t th world v above would be entered 1 fr b doors or gates The texts show that back in andes ancie Egypt arose the belief that a m ma must be good to be admitted to hea en One passage of this sort sai say O 0 ferryman of the field of or rew reed the King Pepy Is worthy for the s sic k and for tor the earth this King Pepy Pep j I worthy for the thc islands of the earth cart Life in the thc Egyptian heaven vi described as a pleasant one of pro pre pcr ty health and happiness 1 n abundance of bread milk beer win I sweetmeats quail fruits and foods is described J As the inscriptions were in lit foj ra tombs there is little in them about Eg Egyptian hell Dr Duncan says sars Su Sua Sua Sue Suea a topic would have been out of pin plu in religious writings describing t tb future of a departed ruler |