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“Without any doubt, the history and the accomplishment of each group of people are intimately tied to the manner in which they solve the problem of death, to the philosophy that they adopt in terms of human destiny.”

“The religion of Osiris is the first, in the history of humanity, to invent the notions of paradise and hell. Two thousand years before Moses, and three thousand years before Christ, Osiris, the personification of the Good, was already presiding over the judgment of the dead in the world beyond the grave, wearing on his head the Atew or Atef. If the dead person during his terrestrial life had satisfied the different moral criteria that are too many to enumerate here, he gained the Aaru or Aar, a garden protected by an iron wall with several gates, and a river running through it. This garden is tilled by the spirits, the blessed ones, who wander through it; the roads that lead to it are mysterious; the dead one has to cross a bridge suspended in space and made of a hideous snake who hangs above the gates of hell. The vindicated dead man becomes an Osiris, immortal, and from then on lives among the gods eternally; it is thought that the Aaru field, the Egyptian paradise, was used as a model for the Elysian Fields of Homer, a contemporary of Piankhi or of Shabaka who is supposed to have visited Egypt, according to Greek tradition itself.”

Cheikh Anta Diop
“Civilization Or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology”
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