The memorial chambers in which these feasts were celebrated were adorned with pictures and carving representing the familiar scenes of daily life, but in the gloomy recesses beyond mystic and awful scenes are depicted. The representations of the gods, not often met with in earlier times, had now become common and familiar; and so does Amenti itself cease to be the ‘hidden’ world, and the scenes and events of the life after death appear in visible though mystic shape. The Egyptian from of old believed in the judgment before Osiris, but now it was depicted. The heart is seen weighed in the balance; Osiris is enthroned as judge; Thoth records the result.[62] The trials that await the spirit take bodily form as foul and hideous monsters that must be encountered and overcome; good and guardian powers appear as star-crowned genii of light; and for the impure spirit the furnace of purifying fire is kindled, behind which stands a figure holding in his hand the emblem of the purity that must be won. [Illustration: The Weighing of Actions.] Nor is it the conflicts and triumphs of the human spirit alone that are portrayed, but the conflicts and triumphs of the gods themselves. We read in a very ancient chapter of the sacred book: ‘I am Ra in his first supremacy—the great god, self-existing. There was a battle-field of the gods prepared when I spake.’ Later on a more tangible shape and form is given to this great battle. In the tomb of Seti I. we may see it all in allegory and mystic symbol. Here is depicted in a series of tableaux the ‘passage of the Sun through the hours of the day and of the night,’ _i.e._ of the visible and invisible world, beholding and ruling all, both mortal and immortal. Ra in his bark, the ‘ancient and unknown One in his mystery,’ accompanied by gods and spirits, finds the ‘field of battle prepared.’ The serpent of evil, Apepi, lies in wait, hidden beneath the waves of the celestial rivers—the ether. After a hard struggle he is drawn out and destroyed, and the heavenly bark disappears in peace behind the western horizon, received by the mother goddess Nut.[63] A hymn addressed to Ra, ‘Lord of the horizon,’ celebrates his triumph: ‘Thou awakenest, triumphant and blessed One, thou who comest in radiance and travellest in thy disk! Thy divine bark[64] speeds on, blest by thy mother Nut each day; thy foes fall as thou turnest thy face to the western heaven. Glad are the mariners of thy bark; Ra hath quelled his impious foe, he striketh down the evil one, thou breakest his strength, casting him into the fire that encircleth in its season the children of wickedness.’