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Welcome to Mummification
~Inspired by Mr. Klumper~
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Definition of Mummification
•Drying out a dead body to prevent it from rotting
•Some Images for you to enjoy, sort of…..
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Mummification
Having your body mummified was very EXPENSIVE!!!
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Why be Mummified?
• 1. Physical Body need to be preserved
• 2. Ensure a Safe Passage to the afterlife
• 3. King mummified so the spirit would recognize him in the after life.
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Steps 1 & 2 of Mummification
• 1. Announcement of DeathMessenger Sent out to the streets to announce the dead.
• 2. Embalming the Body Dead body brought to special
tent for embalming
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Step 3 - Removal of the Brain and Internal
Organs• Egyptians thought brain was a Waste of space.
• Method 1: Remove brain through the nose with a hook
• Method 2. Mix up brain with wire and let it drain out through nose
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• Liver, Lungs, Stomach & Intestines
• Method: small slit cut in stomach and organs pulled out.
• Organs then placed in Canopic Jars
• Cleansing: Body washed with oil, lotion and preserving fluids
• Body then stuffed with linen or straw to keep shape of a body
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Step 4 – Drying out Process
• Method: Body placed on slab and covered with Natron Salt
• The slab was on a slant so water could run out.
• This lasted 40 Days
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Step 5 – Wrapping the Body
• Hundreds of Yards of Linen (cloth)
• Shroud (cloth) added at end to keep wrappings together
• Body covered with “Mummia” to glue everything together.
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Step 6 – Final Procession
• Family & friends would walk through town on their way to the burial.
• People were paid to cry to show the gods the person was well loved• The more people crying, the better.
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Ritual 1 - Opening of the Mouth
• Priests would touch the parts of the face with special instruments.
• Purpose: Without this process, dead person would not be able to see, hear, eat, or move in afterlife.
• Then laid in burial chamber with:– belongings– canopic jars– Book of the Dead
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Ritual 1 - Opening of the Mouth
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Ritual 2Weighing of the Heart
If your heart was…. (weighed against the feather of maat)
-Balanced: Immortality-Heart Heavier: horrible fate
The Horrible fate wasthat your heart would be eaten by Ammut (part Lion, Crocodile, and Hippopotamus)
• www.crystalinks.com/egyptianjudgment.jpg
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NOW….YOU TRY IT!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_mummy_maker.shtml