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A mummy is a preserved body of a dead person or animal that still has skin. Some of them are many thousands of years old, but they have been so well preserved that they still distinguish the aspect that the person or the animal showed in life.
Sometimes, the corpses are mummified by accident in very dry, cold or humid places, but more often they are preserved on purpose, in general for religious reasons. The Egyptian mummies were the abode of the soul in eter.
The ancient inhabitants of Peru believed that the mummified dead were still important members of the family.
Sacred ancestors
Some of the best preserved mummies were found in the deserts of the coast of Peru. The Chimues conquered an empire in the fourteenth century. Following a tradition of almost 2000 years, they buried their dead with their knees bent almost touching their chins, and wrapped them in cotton cloth. They saw in their ancestors powerful living precedents that helped them in difficult epochs.
Embalmed forever
Almost for 3000 years, the ancient Egyptians preserved their dead: they extracted the internal organs, dried the skin with natron (composed of salts) and wrapped the body with linen bandages dipped in resin. The mummy wore a mask of solid gold and gold plaster. They wanted to create a new and perfect body for eternity.
Mummy by accident
The gelid temperatures and dry air preserved by accident this mummy of an Inuit who died in 1475. It was discovered in Greenland in 1972, along with other five women, a child and a baby. They did not die of hunger, because their stomachs had food. The cause of his death and group burial remains a mystery.
I connect with another world
The Dani of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, preserve the bodies of their chiefs or big men, to ask for advice and help. They set fires and smoked the bodies to mummify them. This method designed to preserve food dries the meat and adds chemical preservatives. The mummies, 300 years old, are today a tourist attraction and the dani charge visitors for photographing them.
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Jade Funeral Costume
During the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD), the Chinese buried the emperors and nobles in jade costumes (green stone associated with immortality), to preserve their bodies. Each suit had more than 2000 unit jade plates with gold, silver or copper threads. The jade did not serve as a method of preservation: the body decomposed and only the bones remained.
Inspiring mummy
Between the seventeenth and fourteenth centuries, the Japanese priests of the sixth Buddhist Shigon deliberately mummified themselves when they were still alive. They were allowed to die of hunger and took poisons that killed the bacteria that cause the decomposition of the body after death. The mummified priests were displayed in the temples to inspire others.
That was interesting particularly the accidental mummification event. I suggest you attach some of the sources which we (readers) can go to explore more regarding this topic.
If they are very interesting situations, in particular I am attracted by the inspiring mummies, since they themselves decided to become mummies, each image has a link that takes you to different pages where you can find a little more information on each subject, thanks for read the article.
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