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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Term funeral comes from. ANSWER -Latin word Funeralis


Term funeral comes from latin word funeralis meaning. ANSWER -Torch Light
Procession


Funerals were almost always at night and "torch light led the way"


Why are funerals slow. ANSWER -so torchlight would not extinguish


Western Culture is comprised of: (3). ANSWER -Greek Aesthetics and philosophy - what
we read


Roman Law - our system of government


Judeo-Christian tradition - America founded by religious people


Most of the death customs in the US comes from. ANSWER -England


Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead. ANSWER -Osiris


Egyptians used embalming so that the soul could revisit the body after it completed the.
ANSWER -Circle of Necessity which took 3,000 years


Egyptians believed they would arise from the dead after 3,000 years and. ANSWER -live
with god thereafter

,Egyptians were often unable to bury their dead because of (2). ANSWER -the overflow of
the Nile river


keep the products of putrefaction out of the soil and generating a plague


Egyptians that could not afford to be embalmed utilized. ANSWER -Dry Burial


Dry Burial method. ANSWER -bodies buried in coarse cloth and laid upon a bed of
charcoal under 6 - 8 ft of sand


Why dry burial worked for egyptians. ANSWER -dry air and nitrous soil provided slow
and inoffensive decomposition


First Class of Egyptian Embalming reserved for. ANSWER -well to do and high of rank


First class of Egyptian embalming was expensive and elaborate consisting of these steps:
(3). ANSWER -1 - Brain and viscera removed and placed in canopic jars


2 - head and body cavities washed and filled with spices


3 - Body was immersed in solution for 40 days the wrapped in linen


First class Egyptian embalming was immersed in a solution for. ANSWER -40 days


Second class of Egyptian embalming (4). ANSWER -1 - Injected Cedar oil into body
without evisceration


2 - Soaked in Natron


3 - Cedar oil dissolved soft organs


4 - All that remained was skin and bones

,type of salt that absorbed water. ANSWER -Natron


Third class of Egyptian embalming. ANSWER -For poorer class


Body soaked in soda for 70 days


Later they used pitch or bitumen


hard black mummy most identifiable by public utilized. ANSWER -bitumen or pitch


Canopic Jars. ANSWER -MESTA - Man headed jar


HAPI - Dog headed jar


TUAMTEF - Jackal headed jar


QEBHSENNUF - Hawk Headed jar


Man headed jar. ANSWER -MESTA


dog headed jar. ANSWER -HAPI


Jackal headed jar. ANSWER -TUAMTEF


Hawk headed jar. ANSWER -QEBHSENNUF


Most of what we know of embalming from this ear comes from. ANSWER -Herodotus


Father of History from 484BC - 424BC. ANSWER -Herodotus

, Egyptian and most early African culture used these to keep the body from touching the
earth (4). ANSWER -Mats


Skin


Reeds


Wooden and Earthenware baskets


large ornamental coffin of stone or marble. ANSWER -Sarcophagus


man-resembling shaped commin. ANSWER -Anthropoid


EUS Egyptian Undertaking Specialist (6). ANSWER -Kher-heb - priest or supervisor. the
one in charge


Surgeon - Chief embalmer


Scribe - made the mark for incision


Parachistes - made the incision


Apothecary - made aromatic powders, ointments, oils


Pollinctors - anointed the body with oils


EUS in charge. ANSWER -Kher-heb / priest / supervisor


EUS chief embalmer. ANSWER -Surgeon


EUS made the incision. ANSWER -parachistes

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