stackyFACTSTo an ancient Egyptian, true death only occurred when the living stopped talking about you. 'To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again' was a literal creed. If your name was chipped off a monument by a jealous rival, your soul would instantly violently dissolve into eternal oblivion.
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