Editing Mehet-Weret (section)

==Death and afterlife==
{{CSS image crop|Image=Bookofthedeadspell17.jpg|bSize=700|cWidth=280|cHeight=120|oTop=|oLeft=280|Description=The mystical Spell 17, from the [[Papyrus of Ani]]. The vignette illustrates (middle) Mehet-Weret.}}The goddess Mehet-Weret was featured in a number of spells in the [[Book of the Dead]], including spell 17. In this spell she was credited for the birth of Re, and she is also the one who protects Re, because it was believed by the ancient people of Egypt that the sun died every day and was reborn by Mehet-Weret. She was responsible for taking him into the underworld, or night because of the darkness, and then bringing him back to the world the next day, almost as if in the afterlife. The people of Egypt believed that Mehet-Weret was a goddess of creation and rebirth, so she was featured in one of the spells to help the humans make their way into the [[afterlife]]. The Book of the Dead is an important text in the Egyptian culture because it allows the audience to understand the different journeys that the ancient Egyptians believed in to get to the afterlife.<ref>[[Budge, E. A. Wallis]]. ''The Egyptian Book of the Dead Index'' Accessed September 15, 2014. http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/.</ref>