Religious Mummies
How to: Making a Mummy - 20 Easy Steps!
1. First, go to the Nile River (or any water) and wash and shave the body.
2. Second, you must remove the brain. To do this, you must take a hook and push it up the roof of the nose and into the brain. Push up and down until the brain is broken down into pieces. 3. Then, turn the body on it's stomach and empty the brain out of the body and into a bowl. 4. Cut open the stomach area and take out all the organs besides the heart and put them in jars. 5. Use natron (mix of salt and baking soda) to dry the body. Completely cover the body in natron for about 40 days. 6. When the natron is removed, the body should be much darker and thinner. Wash the body once more and stuff the cavities with resin-soaked linen. 7. You must prepare the body in oil and resin but you must do it in a certain order. You must do oil then resin. (Yes. It does matter.) 8. Oils of myrrh, juniper, and crushed leaves of thyme are used to perfume the body. 9. Pine resin is melted on the brazier and brushed onto the body to preserve it. 10.Put a golden plate on top of the hole that you cut earlier (step 4) so that it is protected. 11. Place a mask on the mummy. (Use a more expensive mask for important people and linen masks for poorer people.) 12. Have a priest say some prayers. 13. Wrap the body in linen from head to toe. 14. Insert special amulets (charms) in between the linen strips. 15. Have a fitted mask ready for the mummy. 16. Create a label for the mummy. The label should be their name in hieroglyphs. 17. Put the label inside the casket. 18. Seal the casket. 19. Place the casket in the burial place. 20. And you have your mummy! Source used: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/mummy_maker/index_embed.shtml |
Journal Entry #1
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Dear Diary,
Today I went to a religious temple. A priest toured me around the area and told me about their belief system. He told me how they were polytheists, which meant that they believed in more than one god. I thought it was cool how they believed in more than one god because it was different from what I was used to. Some gods that they believed in were Osiris, Anubis, Horus, and Isis. The priest told me how important the burial ceremonies were. These ceremonies consisted of many rituals including weighing their heart to see whether their good deeds outweighed the bad. The Egyptian's religion was a big part of their life. Religion affected their life and afterlife. Afterlife was a very big deal to the Egyptians.
Today I went to a religious temple. A priest toured me around the area and told me about their belief system. He told me how they were polytheists, which meant that they believed in more than one god. I thought it was cool how they believed in more than one god because it was different from what I was used to. Some gods that they believed in were Osiris, Anubis, Horus, and Isis. The priest told me how important the burial ceremonies were. These ceremonies consisted of many rituals including weighing their heart to see whether their good deeds outweighed the bad. The Egyptian's religion was a big part of their life. Religion affected their life and afterlife. Afterlife was a very big deal to the Egyptians.
Journal Entry #2
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Dear Diary,
Today I went to the Great Pyramid. I was led into the pyramid and was able to explore the insides. A mummy expert explained how and why mummies were made in ancient Egypt. Basically, the brain and the internal organs, besides the heart, are removed, then the body is wrapped, the wrapped body is placed in a casket, and the casket is placed in the burial location. The heart was left inside the body because they believed that it was needed for resurrection. Pharaohs were buried in pyramids. The reason for mummies was to preserve the body for their afterlife. Often food and goods needed in daily life was put with the mummy, so that the provided goods would help in their life after death.
Today I went to the Great Pyramid. I was led into the pyramid and was able to explore the insides. A mummy expert explained how and why mummies were made in ancient Egypt. Basically, the brain and the internal organs, besides the heart, are removed, then the body is wrapped, the wrapped body is placed in a casket, and the casket is placed in the burial location. The heart was left inside the body because they believed that it was needed for resurrection. Pharaohs were buried in pyramids. The reason for mummies was to preserve the body for their afterlife. Often food and goods needed in daily life was put with the mummy, so that the provided goods would help in their life after death.
CEE Paragraph #1 - How did religion influence Egyptian life?
Religion played a very big part in Egyptian life because the Egyptians strongly believed that most people would have an afterlife. The PBS website (link below) states, "Egyptian culture attached a great deal of importance to burial rituals." The Egyptians made a very big deal about burial rituals and their afterlife. These ceremonies were taken very seriously. In our SS textbook, page 159 says, "Egyptians believed that their prosperity could continue with a happy afterlife." Egyptians truly believed that afterlife was a big deal and that you could be forever happy in your afterlife. Plus, on the Australian Museum website (link below) tells us that religion governed all levels of the social classes. Religion was a big part of everyone's life no matter what social class they were. Religion was a very big part of an Egyptians life and afterlife
Australian Museum: http://australianmuseum.net.au/Religion-and-gods-in-ancient-Egypt
PBS: http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/newkingdom/religion.html
Australian Museum: http://australianmuseum.net.au/Religion-and-gods-in-ancient-Egypt
PBS: http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/newkingdom/religion.html