Mummification

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Mummification Afterlife
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Embalming the Body

• Wash the body with good smelling palm wines and
  rinse with water from the Nile.
• Cut a slit in the left side of the body and
  remove internal organs the liver, stomach, lungs
  and intestines are placed in canopic jars.
• imsety the human headed god holds the liver
• hapy the baboon headed god holds the lungs

Canopic Jars ?
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Embalming the Body(continued)

• duamutef the jackal headed god holds the stomach
• qebehsenuef the falcon headed god holds the
  intestines
• A hook is then inserted up the nose to remove the
  brains the heart remains in the body because the
  Egyptians believed that your heart was the most
  important aspect of the human.
• the body is then covered and stuffed with natron
  salt which will help to dry out the body
• The body is then placed in the desert for 40
  days. After the 40 days the body is then washed
  again with Nile water the skin is the covered in
  oils.

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Wrapping

• First the head and neck are wrapped with linen.
  The fingers and toes are wrapped individually.
  The arms and legs are wrapped separately from the
  body
• In the layers the embalmers place amulets to
  protect the body in the underworld. The 'isis
  knot' amulet protects the body and ' Plummet'
  represents personal balance
• Priests read out spells while the mummy is being
  wrapped.

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Wrapping (continued)

• Papyrus scroll filled with spells from the book
  of the dead is wrapped in the mummies hands
• A cloth is then wrapped over the whole body and a
  painting of Osiris is Painted on top.
• A funeral is then held for the dead person before
  the body is laid to rest they have a ritual
  called 'the opening of he mouth' this lets the
  dead person eat and drink one last time

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The Afterlife

• Death is not seen as the last stage of life
• Before the mummy can reach the underworld it has
  to pass through seven gates, aided by the magic
  spells inscribed upon the funerary objects, then
• the dead person arrives in the presence of Osiris
  (god of the underworld)

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The Afterlife(continued)

• Osiris then performs a ceremony called the
  'weighing of the heart'
• Heart of the dead person is weighed on a scale by
  the jackal headed god Anubis (god of dead)
  against the feather of Ma'at (goddess of truth)

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The Afterlife(continued)

• Balancing the scale meant immortality
• If the scale did not balance then Amemt
  (crocodile headed god) would eat the heart, and
  Seth, murderer of Osiris ate the rest of the body