They had an understanding of gods or other spirits beyond this world and felt that the human spirit had a way to transcend this world and live among them. Burial for the deceased was important part of an ancient Egyptian’s life. The entombment process they used from beginning to end became one of the central pieces of Egyptian culture. As soon as a person died the entombment process began. The Egyptians did not make a strong distinction between body and soul as many other cultures do.
To be more precise in Mesopotamian culture the story of Gilgamesh tp Sumerian/ Babylonians demonstrates their values of kinship, loyalty, and burial practices. For starters, kinship is the genetic relation or ancestry that connects you to a specific person. Not necessarily in every case do you have to be directly related to someone to be considered family or kin. Not only can we identify with that person but they also share a similar belief or concept in life. These two people are so intertwined that when an unfortunate event occurs that person affected remains in denial, going into a long fixed period of mourning until coming to grasps with reality once again.
evil is also developed though Christian symbols warding off evil. When Jonathan was on his way to Castle Dracula, he is given a crucifix by the elderly woman at the hotel to protect him. “She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her next offered it to me.”(Jonathan Harker’s journal 13). The rosary protects Jonathan while he cuts his self shaving, Dracula lunges for his throat, but stops when he sees the crucifix around Jonathan’s neck. Later in the novel Van Helsing gives the knights communion wafers and crucifixes to keep them safe, and places wafers in Dracula’s coffin to banish him from it.
The first organ removed was the brain. The Egyptians believed that the brain was of little importance and it was thrown away when removed 3. This step was to remove the internal organs. The heart was the only organ that the Egyptians left inside because this is where they believed the importance of a person lived. 4.
Cadaver’s and the Law Can you imagine going to take your loved one flowers to the grave site? Only to find they gave is dug up and the body is missing. Because of sensible laws regulating the acquisition of cadavers, we don’t have to worry. I’m for the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, mainly to protect the dead. Anatomists have used bodies of dead people called cadavers for studies of the human body.
Both cultures had rudimentary concepts of Mathematics and Medicine. They also both experienced huge floods Differences: Ancient Egypt had kings and pharaohs, Ancient China had emperors and queens. China didn't build any pyramids. In Egypt, people were buried with thought to preservation, as they believed that the dead would be able to use their bodies in the afterlife. Chinese burial style depended on the province as well as the main religion of the person.
The artic tribes would leave their dead out in the freezing temperatures for the wild animals to devour. The Hopewell tribe would build amazing and beautifully furnished tombs for their dead. Tribes in the Southeast would dig up corpses after a certain amount of time, clean the bones, and then they were reburied. The Northeast Iroquois tribe would save their dead and have a mass burial. They would bury ornaments and furs for the spirits to use in the afterlife.
The body of the deceased is washed an odd number of times, washing always commences on the right-side of the body. Washing begins with the hands, arms, mouth, nostrils and finishes with the feet (Ross 2001). Care is taken at all times to handle the body with of the deceased as gently as possible, and to ensure that the body is never uncovered entirely. When the washing ritual has been completed the body of the deceased is wrapped in a burial shroud and placed in a wooden coffin. Normally the washing and shrouding of a deceased individual is undertaken in a mosque; however hospitals are adapting to meet the needs of the Islamic faith by providing a
There are seven steps to the mummification process. The first step is the announcement of death. In this step a messenger is sent out into the streets to let everyone know someone has died so the people could prepare themselves for the mourning period and ceremony. The second step was to embalm the body. To get the body embalmed they were taken to small tents called embalming workshop, which were maintained by teams of priests.
Egyptian art and architecture developed independently and revolved around the concept of immortality. Pharaohs recognized that their nobility and eternal spirit depended greatly on the masons, painters and sculptors they chose to reflect their lives and carry on their legacy. Therefore artisans were treated with great respect and were considered middle class. Respect and a sense of value are very important to me, and had I lived in Egypt during this age they would have been imperative also. Egyptian artisans were instructed in the proper techniques to carry out their work in a very specific genre and style.