The ancient Egyptian funerary writings, The Book of the Dead, describes a great deal of mummification. Many of the ancient Egyptian people followed this text, therefore mummification was essential when someone deceased to go on to the next world. This article will tell you some information that are interesting about mummification. Today we know that mummification was crucial for the ancient Egyptians. Also, cats were mummified when they died.
Maintaining ones, body of a dead person was needed and there was arranged a fundamental funeral practices in ancient Egypt. If the body was not held for future use, then the “Ka" would not be able to return and find sustenance. If the body had taken normal procedure and decayed, it would become unrecognizable, therefore the “Ka" would pass away and the life after death would be in danger of the individual who died. Due to this thing the individuals of ancient Egypt worked with mummification for the purpose of prevent the dead body from putrefying.
Lots of people look at mummification is solely a mechanical process which idea is to fill the corpse, the truth is that it was also a ritual process. Ancient Egyptians were continuously looking into recreating Osiris, who was one of the oldest gods in ancient Egypt. The “Hery Seshta” was the individual who was responsible of carrying out the mummification; he is the one who took part of Anubis who is the jackal god. The helper of the mummification ceremony is the “Hetemw Netjer.” The person who was declaiming the magic spells during the mummification was called as the “Hery Heb.” The one who did the bloody removal of the insides together with bandaging up the body was named the “Wetyw.”
After someone died, he would be moved to the place of washing and cleansing. This place is where an individual would be rinsed in some kind of sodium carbonate. When this was done, an individual would be moved to the “Per Nefer” which is in English "the house of loveliness", this is where the mummification process would be completed. The organs of body of the deceased individual were taken out, dehydrated, washed and then bandaged. The body's insides were put in pots where they would be placed with the body. They would beautify the jars with the “4 sons of Horus.” "Hapy" is the ancient Egyptian god that had a baboon head and he protected the lungs, "Imety" sheltered the liver and he was the human headed god, "Duamutef" was a jackal headed god and he sheltered the stomach and "Qebehsenuff" was the god with a falcon head that protected the bowels.
Finally, the corpse was left for about 40 days to dehydrate. After the dehydrating time the ancient Egyptian people soaked corpse with fragrant liquids. Also, maybe fake eyes might have been added. The mummy was ready to move to the other world.
There are today some fantastic museums which have the excellent exhibitions of mummies. These museums are the Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin, Egyptian Museum in Cairo and of course, the British Museum in London.
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