The heart of a dead body was weighed on a scale. On one side of the scale there was a feather and on the opposite side, a heart. If the heart was heavier than the feather, it meant that the dead body’s soul would not make it to afterlife and the person’s soul and body would be vulnerable to the demons of the underworld. If the heart was lighter than the feather it meant that this person had done good deeds in his life and he would enter afterlife and live in paradise for eternity.
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