sure, the rebirth takes place in the underworld, but where rebirth can take place there, the afterlife is tinged with paradise, which implies direct and eternal communication between gods and man.
What began in the Old Kingdom as a perception of the underworld as a place of wondrous information and potentiality was transformed by the time of the New Kingdom into a perception of the underworld as almost instrumental in the project of transfiguration of human experience into divine experience. As Hornung says, the figure of Osiris in the Old Kingdom period is given precedence over the pharaoh "as if it were a title; later [Osiris] is placed before the name of each deceased individual," which shows that godhead could be incorporated in or infused humankind, the oneness symbolic of perfect communication between matter and spirit.
2. Communication in dreams. A mediating theological force in the differences in Old and New Kingdom perceptions seems to have been the royal experiment in monotheism, wherein godhead was associated with the sun in a divine as
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