Mummification And The Book Of The Dead

The ancient Egyptian mystic writings, The Book of the Dead, describes a great deal of mummification. Numerous of the ancient Egyptians learned things of this script, so mummification was essential when a person deceased to move to the other world. This article will tell you some information that are interesting about mummification. Nowadays we know that mummification process was very important for the individuals of ancient Egypt. Also, cats were mummified after death.

Preserving somebody, body of a dead person was required and there was arranged a necessary ceremony for the dead in the world of ancient Egypt. If the body was not reserved, then the Ka" would not be able to return and help the dead people. If the corpse had taken standard procedure and putrefied, it would become unrecognizable, therefore the "reception of the life powers" would pass away and the afterlife would be in jeopardy of the person who died. Because of this the individuals of ancient Egypt worked with mummification for the purpose of prevent the dead body from decaying.

Many people think mummification as just being a mechanical method in order to fill the body, the truth is that it was a ritual process too. Ancient Egyptians were continuously looking into admiring Osiris, who was one of the most admired gods in Egypt thousands of years ago. The Hery Seshta was the person who was in charge of doing the mummification; he is the one who took part of Anubis who is the jackal god. The supporter of the mummification ceremony is the Hetemw Netjer", the assistant embalmer priest. The individual who was reading the mysterious spells during the mummification was named as the Hery Heb. The individual who did the tangible removal of the internal organs together with covering for wound of the corpse was named the "Wetyw", the embalmer.

When somebody died, he would be taken to the location of washing and cleansing. This place is where an individual would be washed in some kind of sodium carbonate. When this was done, a person would be taken to the "house of beauty", this is the place where the mummification process would be completed. The internal organs of the deceased person were taken out, dehydrated, rinsed and then packed. The body's insides were put in containers where they would be set with the body. The ancient Egyptians would paint the pots with the four sons of Horus. "Hapy" is the ancient Egyptian god that had a monkey skull and he took care of the lungs, "Imety" took care of the liver and he was the human headed god, "Duamutef" , the god with jackal head sheltered the stomach and "Qebehsenuff" was the god with a falcon head that took care of the bowels.

Lastly, the body was left for about 40 days to dry out. After the drying time the ancient Egyptian people immerseed corpse with aromatic liquids. Also, maybe false eyes might have been inserted. The mummy was ready to jump to the next world.

There are today some fantastic museums which have the famous exhibitions of mummies. The most popular museums are the gyptisches Museum in Berlin, Egyptian Museum in Cairo and certainly, the British Museum in London.