Cool Egyptian Fact #1

Those crafty Egyptians... they buried lovely little shabtis, or "answerer" figurines, with their dead (at least with their rich and royal dead) so that when the dead were prayed to and called upon to do work (like bringing on the rain), the dead needn't disturb their divine reposes; they just sent out their little shabtis to do the dirty work.

What a good idea.

On laziness in the afterlife, the Dickinson oracle pronounces:

It dont sound so terrible - quite - as it did -
I run it over - "Dead", Brain - "Dead".
Put it in Latin - left of my school -
Seems it dont shriek so - under rule.
(E. Dickinson, from 384)