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In ancient Egyptian mythology, 'the fields of Aaru' (alternatives: ''Yaaru'', ''Iaru'', ''Aalu''), are the heavenly paradise, sometimes referred to as the the Egyptian reed fields, where Osiris ruled after he became part of the Egyptian pantheon and displaced Anubis in the Ogdoad tradition.
Only souls who weighed ''exactly'' the same as the feather of the goddess Ma'at were allowed to start a long and perilous journey to Aaru, where they would exist in pleasure for all eternity. The ancient Egyptians believed that the soul resided in the heart. Those excluded because of the weight of their heart did not match the weight of the feather of Ma'at, because of their sins, were said to suffer a ''second death'' when devoured by another goddess, Ammit, while still in Duat for judgment.
Aaru usually was placed in the east, where the sun rises, and is described as eternal reed fields, very much like those of the earthly Nile delta: an ideal hunting and fishing ground, and hence, those deceased who, after judgment, were allowed to reside there, were often called ''the eternally living''.
More precisely, Aaru was envisaged as a series of islands, covered in ''Fields of rushes'' ('Sekhet Aaru'), ''Aaru'' being the Egyptian word for ''rushes''. The part where Osiris later dwelt was sometimes known as the ''field of offerings'', 'Sekhet Hetepet' in Egyptian.

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★ Catholic Encyclopaedia

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★ Heaven

★ Elysium