Egyptian Religion Religion was arguably the most important aspect of any Egyptian’s life. Many shortcomings or glorious victories were blamed or attributed to the dispositions of the gods. With that said, the Egyptian’s held the afterlife as one of the most important events in one’s life. They believed that the deceased needed his earthly body for his second body or Ka (soul) to achieve the immeasurable task ahead of him, to gain entry to the giant grain fields of Yaru. To climb to the Egyptian “heaven” you had to defeat many dangers to even imagine an audience with Osiris the Egyptian god of death. To