Answer the following question in 3-4 complete sentences. A scene of half man, half animal beings standing before a mummified pharaoh.
Explain the circumstance depicted by the images above? Include important Egyptian terms and names.

The scene presented a deceased person in the Hall of Truth, being judged by the various Egyptian gods.

Explanation:

The scene presents a dead person entering the Egyptian's underworld by the Hall of Truth. The person’s heart is weighted by Anubis, the god of mummification. By the belief, when a person I mummified heart is put in the pot, and later it is weighted (as shown on the picture) in the underworld so it could be determined if it balances with the feather. If a person did not have a good character and intellect, the heart wouldn't be in balance, and it would be devoured by Amut, part alligator and part hippopotamus god, standing by the scales. It would mean the person was denied joining the afterlife, and this non-existence was the worst punishment.

On the right side of the image, we see Horus, the god of the sun, who has the falcon head. He is presenting the deceased here to Osiris, his father, and the god of the underworld. As Osiris has previously been murdered and resurrected, he is imagined as a mummified god, sitting under the canopy, supervising the judgment.

If a person is deemed worthy of the afterlife, they leave the hall of judgment. They go across the Lily Lake and then enter the heaven of Field of Reeds, where they reunite with possessions buried with them, as well as other positions and people who died before them.

This whole scene is recorded and explained in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. This is the name given to the collection of scrolls, stories, and spells that a deceased person uses to get through the afterlife.