The god Thoth with Seti I, in the Tomb of Seti I (KV17)
“The ancients thought of death as the essential prelude to life. The two form a polarity; one is meaningless without the other, and they alternate in all spheres of nature – among men, animals, vegetation and stars. Death is passing from one kind of time to another – from life yesterday to life tomorrow. What is in the Underworld belongs to death, but it is in a state of becoming, where the ‘form’ or shape of things is given in which they will later “appear.””
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Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egyptby R. T. Rundle Clark