Explain Their Beliefs On The Afterlife And Its Relationship To The Pyramids

The texts in the interior walls of the pyramid of Unas explain their belief on the afterlife and its relationship to the solar cycle. The reason why the sarcophagus was on the west end of the burial chamber was representative of Nut’s womb, the sky god. As the sun rose from the west, the king’s spirit was revitalized to proceed from the burial chamber to the antechamber. In the antechamber is where both the sun and the mummy received the power of a new life, and every night the king’s spirit would go back to his tomb, working as a resurrection machine.
Pyramid shape tombs returned during the 5th and 6th dynasty, which meant large amounts of labor and raw materials where necessary to build them. Coffin texts were common at this time to help