... realm of the dead — as spec-tators. They looked on as the souls of the dead were being judged and they witnessed the torment of those who failed to pass the tests of Ma’at. A man dressed in the ... into the streets and onto a ferryboat. This boat took them across the Nile into the City of the Dead, in the western desert region. With words of power, chanted by the wise son, they entered the ... as goddesses of childbirth, helping the mother to safely deliver the child. If the family was not wealthy enough to afford one, the expectant mother gave birth on the roof of the house; a modest...