Mummification in Ancient Egypt is an important ritual in the burial of the deceased.For representatives of this civilization's death was seen as a transition to a different and better life in the hereafter.In general, it is quite common to most developed religions.Belief in the other, after death, life is forced to put different people in grave everyday objects, weapons, deliberately spoil ("kill") is a weapon.All this was done with the idea that things will serve its owner in a new phase of its existence.Mummification in ancient Egypt, pursued the same goals.
The origins of Egyptian civilization in the rite
believe that every person has three souls - ba and ka ah.And to all of them could exist forever, corporal mummification.In ancient Egypt, however, in the long history of civilization we have tried a variety of options to preserve dead bodies.So, in the era of predynastic Upper Egypt locals buried the body in shallow pits in the hot sand.Those dry quickly, making for a long time were not subject to degradation processes.Mummification in ancient Egypt has been evaluated and received its spread in the era of the New Kingdom.Initially, she exposed exclusively aristocrats and kings.Later it was invented cheaper ways for the poor.
process of mummification in ancient Egypt
Since the beginning of the New Kingdom, when a high-ranking nobleman died, the priests recited special prayers over the body, trying to bring it back to life in a way.Then the body is delivered in a special workshop where they began the ritual of mummification.In ancient Egypt, there was a whole caste of specially trained embalmers who carefully removed the internal organs of the body and placed them in special containers with lids for storage.After that, a special body is covered with salt, which it quickly dries.A few days later dried inside the body cavity filled with sawdust, linen and resin.The body is wrapped in a specially prepared tapes.Between the layers of tape covers the master laid amulets and gems.The final stage of mummification was to lay the chief embalmer at the dead man's head masks.Then the body was immersed in a sarcophagus.
Other options
mummification process described above is applied to the top and the wealthiest segments of the population.As mentioned, over time, all of mummification was used by the ancient Egyptians.A cheaper option would pour through a special tube cedar oil into the body of the deceased.A few days later the oil literally corrupting the interior of the dead man before went skin.A few days later the oil produced, and the resulting mummy buried in the ground.The poorest residents of the state who could not afford even the cedar oil, was used instead of a radish juice.It took seventy days, but in the rest of the process was the same.
