Tutankhamun: what did he believe?

As the face of the boy king Tutankhamun is revealed,and in London excitement rises at the return of the exhibition of tomb artefacts,  it is worth stopping to consider what the makers of these astonishing things believed about life and death. 

This site is informative: Ancient Egyptians tried with poetic energy to understand their place in the universe: their mythology centers itself on nature, the earth, sky, moon, sun, stars, and the Nile River.  Biblical pechoes are startling: In the beginning of time was Nu: a vast area of swirling watery chaos and as the floods receded the land appeared. The  god Atum arose: he mated with his shadow and became the Great He-She, a bisexual. Atum gave birth to Shu and Tefnut: Shu represented the air and the principles of life and Tefnut represented rain and principles of order. And so on to the more familiar Isis, Osiris, and the rest. It is their belief in the afterlife which gives us the artefacts unveiled by Howard Carter the power of their poetry which makes us, even now, shiver a little at the idea of the curse...