A Pyramid Text

    
       This passage "A Pyramid Text" explained how death was a positive, happy thing to encounter. The person in the text was explaining how a gatekeeper would come take Teti's  hand and take him to heaven to be reunited with his father Geb. The tone of this passage was calming, it made me feel as if going to the afterlife would be something enjoyable. He expressed to Teti that his father Geb would caress him, it made me wonder why he would say such a thing? I felt that maybe he said that because he feels Teti is hurting from being apart from his father and that he needs comfort. Towards the end of the passage it said "As ordered done for you by Geb your father, rise up, O Teti, you shall not die". That phrase came off to me that even though Teti might go to the after life to be with his father they he shall never die, that being in the afterlife is only the beginning to eternal life.