For the sake of life's few remaining days, shall I willingly mar Death's thousands of years?
No, my friend, in this point at least I have remained an Egyptian, in believing, like the rest of my countrymen, that the happiness of a future life in the kingdom of Osiris, depends on the preservation of my body, the habitation of the soul.
[Each human soul was considered as a part of the world-soul Osiris, was united to him after the death of the body, and thenceforth took the name of Osiris.

The Egyptian Cosmos consisted of the three great realms, the Heavens, the Earth and the Depths.

Over the vast ocean which girdles the vault of heaven, the sun moves in a boat or car drawn by the planets and fixed stars.

On this ocean too the great constellations circle in their ships, and there is the kingdom of the blissful gods, who sit enthroned above this heavenly ocean under a canopy of stars.

The mouth of this great stream is in the East, where the sun-god rises from the mists and is born again as a child every morning.