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Horus. Always the optimist.part 2
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Mummification:
The basic process involved laying the body on a flat board, and cutting a slit in the abdomen. In an elaborate mummification, this might be performed by a priest wearing a jackal mask to represent Anubis, the deity associated with mummification and the guardian of the Necropolis. Then the body would be washed inside and out with palm wine. The lungs, liver, intestines, and the stomach were removed, mummified separately, and put into canopic jars. The heart was left intact because Egyptians believed this is where the essence of a person resided. Because the ancient Egyptians did not recognize the cognitive function of the brain, the brain would be removed by breaking the thin bone separating the nasal and cranial cavities. This was accomplished by inserting a hooked rod through the nose, stirring the brain until it turned into a liquid, and pouring it out through the nose. The cranial cavity would then be swabbed with linen and hot resin poured into the cavity to seal it.
The body cavity and the separate parts might then be washed with palm wine again. The body was then placed in natron for about forty days, with packets of natron placed inside the chest cavity. Natron dehydrated the body, which, combined with the high salt concentration, prevented bacterial growth and the decay of the body.
The mummy was then wrapped in many layers of linen strips, sealed to the body by tar or resin. Magic amulets were put in the folds and were believed to protect the body from evil spirits and help the soul on its journey through the afterlife. The entire process was completed in seventy days, after which the mummy was delivered to the deceased person's family for burial.
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i always thought the brain was pulled out of the nose and thrown away
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I'd hate to eat at that restaurant.
And doesn't Horus have a wife somewhere?
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Well, at this point in the mythology, we are going to assume most of the gods are still single.
However, even if they were married, it would not really matter, simply because the gods seem to have no objections to polygamy. Horus himself had multiple wives at various points during Egypt’s history. In fact, it has been found that during the later years of the empire, the mythology got switched around so much that he ended up married to his own mother from earlier mythology, Isis.
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>>Well, at this point in the mythology, we are going to assume most of the gods are still single.
Ah, I see XD
I kinda agree with you on that one, but the stock wife has always been Hathor, she just sometimes got blended with Isis and other godesses due to syncretism. In Greek/Roman times, syncretism also (sortof) made Horus his own father.
Those wacky Egyptians
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Well one thing that has to be taken into consideration is the fact that the Egyptians practiced a polytheist religion. The roles of the gods and goddesses were not uniform throughout all Egypt. In some parts of Egypt, the gods could be completely different from other parts elsewhere.
For example, in some provinces, Thoth was considered the creator god, in others, Ra or Horus. In a few renegade towns, they thought it was Set.
So the wonderful thing about it is that we modern people can be free to think whatever we want about the gods of Egypt, because chances are, somebody back then thought the same way.
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Yup.
Thank the gods for henotheism, I suppose. If only people understood that today there'd be a lot less problems in the world.
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People are always saying that the brain is pulled out in chunks through the nose. I try to explain that the brain is Frappe'd inside the skull with the tool, but they always go 'NO UR RONG LOL'...
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