Source of Picture from: Ancient Egypt
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First, you must take the body to a tent called, ibu. There it is washed with palm wine and rinsed with water from the Nile (Embalming the body).
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Source of Picture from: Ancient Egypt
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A cut is made in the left side of the body and the stomach, liver, intestines, and lungs are removed. The organs are washed and packed in natron salt to dry them out. A hook goes up the nose and pulls the brain out.
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Source of Picture from: Ancient Egypt
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The body is covered and filled with natron salt to dry it out. The fluids and scraps will be saved to bury with the body.
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Source of Picture from: Ancient Egypt
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After forty days the embalmers wash the body with water from the Nile. Then it is covered with oil to keep the skin flexible.
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Source of Picture from: Ancient Egypt
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The organs are wrapped in linen and placed in canopic jars. The embalmers stuff the body with linen, sawdust, and leaves so it looks lifelike. Again the body is coated with good- scented oils.
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Source of Picture from: Ancient Egypt
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In the past the organs were stored in canopic jars and buried with the person, but overtime embalmers started to put the organs back in the body after they were dehydrated. Imsety the human-headed god protected the liver. Hapy the baboon-headed god protected the lungs. Duamutef the jackal-headed god protected the stomach. Qebehsenuef the falcon-headed god protected the intestines.
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First, the head and neck are wrapped with linen. Then the fingers and toes are wrapped individually.
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The legs and arms are wrapped one by one. Then amulets are placed between the linen wrappings to protect the person in the afterlife.
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A priest comes and reads spells out loud to perish the evil spirits so the dead can make it to the underworld.
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The person's arms and legs are tied together. The Book of the Dead is placed between the person's wrapped hands.
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The body is wrapped in more linen. The bandages are painted with liquid resin to help glue them together. (Embalming the body)
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The body is enclosed with a cloth and a picture of Osiris is drawn on the top.
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The person is wrapped in an even larger cloth and it is attached to the person with strips of linen. A wooden painted board is laid on the person and they are put in the first coffin. The first coffin is then lowered into the second coffin. After the funeral has happened, a ceremony called "The Opening of the Mouth" is held where the dead can eat and drink again. Lastly, the coffin is placed in a stone sarcophagus in the tomb. Furniture, clothing, valuable objects, food and drink are put in the tomb for the dead. Now he is ready for his journey in the afterlife.
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Source of Picture: Ancient Egypt Online
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MUT means Mother in the Egyptian language. She wears two crowns, one representing Upper Egypt and the other representing Lower Egypt (Top 10 most worshipped Ancient Egyptian Gods). She is signified as a Vulture in hieroglyphs. She was depicted as a woman with a lioness, cow, or cobra head. MUT replaced Amun's first wife. When Amun and Ra came together as Amun- Ra, MUT inherited the "Eye of Ra". The "Eye of Ra" means the daughter of Ra who embodied the fierce heat of the Sun (Mut).
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Source of Picture from: Channeling Erik
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Ra represents sunlight, warmth, and growth. Egyptians believed he was the creator of the world. They also believed each other god should have some representation of him and he should have a representation of every other god. He has a falcon head and a sun disk on top of his head. A snake named Uraeus went around the sun disk. They thought humans were created from his tears. He has a child named Shu. He is the God of Dry Air and Father of the Sky. He has a twin sister named, Tefnut. She is the Goddess of Moisture and Wetness (Ra | The Sun God of Egypt).
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Source of Picture from: Prezi
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Hapi was shown as a man with women breasts and a big belly. That symbolized fertility of the Nile. His skin was blue or green to represent water. He was very important because he controlled the annual flood of the Nile. The floods were important because they deposited silt on to the Nile's bank, making it easier for farmers to grow crops. When the flood occurred, it was referred to as the "Arrival of Hapi". In Lower Egypt, he was adorned with papyrus plants and surrounded by frogs. In Upper Egypt, he was decorated with lotuses and visited by crocodiles. His wife in North Egypt was, Buto and his wife in South Egypt was Nekhebet (Meziane).
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Source of Picture from: Osiris
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Osiris is the god of the dead, the afterlife, and the underworld. He is shown as a man with green skin and a beard. He is wearing a crown with two big ostrich feathers. Osiris is also given credit for the flooding of the Nile and the growth of vegetation. Osiris was the oldest of his three siblings, his brother was Seth, and his two sisters were Isis and Nephthys. Osiris was the great-grandson of Ra, "The Sun God". His parents were Geb and Nut. Osiris married his sister, Isis and Seth married Nephthys. Nephthys magically transformed into Isis and seduced Osiris. Nephthys became pregnant and had a baby named, Anubis. Seth killed Osiris by putting him in a coffin and drowning him in the Nile, either because he had inherited the throne or because he made his wife pregnant. Isis was able to recover his body. Seth again stole Osiris and cut him up. He then hid the pieces all over the Egyptian Desert. Osiris and Isis had a strong relationship with each other, so strong that Isis went to find all the pieces of Osiris. She searched for years and used her magic powers to bring back her husband's body once she had all the pieces. Egyptians believed that Osiris and other gods would welcome them to the after-life through the weighing of the heart ceremony. This was when the person entering the after-life had their heart weighed on a feather of Ma'at, the god of Truth and Justice and if the heart was lighter than the feather than the person had lived a truthful and good life. Worshiping Osiris was a part of everyday life in Egypt (Osiris - Egyptian God of the Underworld).
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Source of Picture from: Ancient Egyptian Afterlife Study
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This picture is showing the canopic jars that the organs of a mummified person (lungs, stomach, intestines, liver) were placed into. It shows on the lids of the jars there was a god. These gods were the sons of the god named, Horus. The baboon- headed god, named, Hapy kept watch over the lungs. The jackal- headed god, named, Duamutef, kept watch over the stomach. The falcon- headed god, named Qebehsenuef kept watch over the intestines. Lastly, the human- headed god, named, Imesty, protected the liver. They placed the organ in the jar with their associated god. Also, the jars had hieroglyphics on them. Hieroglyphics was the language created by the Egyptians.
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