Hall of Complete Truth
The " Hall of Complete Truth " (also "Court Hall of Osiris" ) has been the seat of the ancient Egyptian judgment of the dead since the New Kingdom . In Proverb 125 of the Book of the Dead no location is mentioned. The seat of the court hall of Osiris is in the port book between the 5th and 6th hour of the night ; in the Amduat, however, in the second hour of the night .
The sun god Re arrives in the port book during his trip on the night barge to this place shortly before midnight in order to prepare for the union with his corpse. For the human dead, the “Hall of Complete Truth” also represents the room of conversion. After the negative confession of guilt , the Ba-soul of the dead unites with his corpse.
The "Hall of the full truth" is limited by the primeval ocean and on the Urfinsternis and is symbolic order in the state immediately before the creation , so that the time of the magical birth beginning of the world.
Book of the Dead 125
Entering the "Hall of Complete Truth"
“What to say when entering the hall, when releasing (the dead) from all evil that he has done, when looking at the faces of the gods. The deceased said: Hail, great God of the Hall of Perfect Truth. I was brought to you to see your perfection. I know the names of the 42 gods who are with you in the Hall of Complete Truth ... I came to you after I brought you the mate and drove away your injustice. "
literature
- Erik Hornung : The Hidden Space of the Underworld in Egyptian Literature . In: Antonio Loprieno : Man and Space from Antiquity to the Present . Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-5987-7380-3 , p. 31.