The Egyptians believed that there was another world, to which the soul journeyed after death. But the journey was long and hazardous, and the soul faced many perils on the way. In order to protect the soul from danger, the Egyptians used to paint an image of the Sun God within the tomb, thus placing the soul directly under the protection of the god, and the soul would wander over the heavens in the company of the god, immune from all harm, so long as the daylight lasted. Directly darkness fell, all the evil spirits would come forth from their retreats, and try to trap the soul as it stumbled blindly through the labyrinths of the lower regions. All night the soul would fight against these perils, struggling continually towards the dawn. Then, as the sun came up, the soul would escape from the evil demons, and wander free of danger through the heavens once more until darkness fell. Every human being was also considered to possess a perfect duplicate, a double, and the Egyptians were taught that the life of this double depended on the survival of the body, and if the double had no body to return to, the double would become extinct and die for good. Such a thing was too terrible to contemplate, and had it happened it would have signified eternal disgrace to the living, as well as obliteration to the dead. Consequently the body was embalmed, so that it would be preserved for all time as a place of refuge for the double. There was the risk, however, that despite all precautions, something might happen to the embalmed body, that it might be destroyed by some accident quite unforeseen and unforeseeable. The Egyptians must have considered this danger long and earnestly before they arrived at a method of averting it. The method was simplicity itself. What could serve the purpose better than a statue of the deceased? If the mummy became damaged, there was always the likeness in stone for the double to inhabit. Then somebody decided that two statues would provide two chances for the double to survive in case of accident to the mummy, and once the idea was fully established the number of statues multiplied until there was a dozen or more, all the same, carved in stone, to represent the dead man. To avoid the possibility of the double making any mistake, the likeness of the dead man was portrayed. This accounts for the finding of so many statues of kings; each statue gave the king a chance in the afterlife. To provide sustenance for the double before it reached the Egyptian equivalent of Paradise, jars of water, meat and bread were buried with the mummy. It would not do for the dead to go hungry. Theoretically the foodstuffs should have been replenished from time to time, and no doubt for long this was done, but the Egyptians finally found that it was difficult enough to provide for the living, without toiling to feed the dead.