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Ancient Egyptian Mummification Process

By: Juha Wihtahousu

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The ancient Egyptian mysterious script, The Book of the Dead, tells much of mummification. Numerous of the ancient Egyptian people learned things of the Book of the Dead, therefore mummification was essential when someone died to move to the next world. This article will tell you some things that we find interesting about mummification. Now we understand that mummification was crucial for the individuals of ancient Egypt. Also, cats were mummified after death.

Preserving dead people, body of a dead person was required and there was arranged a necessary funeral practices in the world of ancient Egypt. If the corpse was not reserved, then the "reception of the life powers" would not be able to return and find sustenance. If the corpse had taken typical method and decayed, it would become unrecognizable, as a result the “Ka" would pass away and the next world would be in jeopardy of the individual who died. Because of this the individuals of ancient Egypt used mummification process for the purpose of prevent the dead body from rotting.

Lots of individuals think mummification as just being a technical process which idea is to fill the corpse, the truth is that mummification was a ritual ceremony too. The people of ancient Egypt were constantly looking into admiring Osiris, who was the first mummy gods in Egypt thousands of years ago. The “Hery Seshta” was the individual who was responsible of carrying out the mummification; this is the person who became the part of Anubis , the jackal god. The assistant of the mummification process is the “Hetemw Netjer", the assistant embalmer priest. The individual who was reading the mysterious spells during the mummification process was called as the “Hery Heb.” The person who did the actual removal of the internal organs along with covering for wound of the body was named the “Wetyw.”

When somebody died, he would be taken to the place of washing and cleansing. This place is where a person would be rinsed in some kind of sodium carbonate. After this, a person would be moved to the "house of beauty", this is where the mummification process would be operated. The organs of body of the deceased person were taken out, dried, washed and then bandaged. The internal organs were placed in jars where they would be set with the corpse. The ancient Egyptians would paint the jars with the “four sons of Horus.” "Hapy" is the ancient Egyptian god that had a monkey skull and he protected the lungs, "Imety" took care of the liver and he had the human head, "Duamutef" had a head like the jackal sheltered the abdomen and "Qebehsenuff" was the god with a falcon head that protected the intestines.

After all, the body was set for over a month to dehydrate. After the drying time the ancient Egyptians soaked corpse with aromatic fluids. Also, maybe false eyes might have been inserted. The mummy was ready to jump to the other world.

There are today some fascinating museums which have the wonderful exhibitions of mummies. Those museums are the Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin, Egyptian Museum in Cairo and of course, the British Museum in London.

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Juha Wihtahousu is the webmaster of the ancient Egypt website Ancient Egyptians - Egyptiandiamond.com.

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