Major Gods
Chief Mourner
What is Isis's main role in a funeral?
What do you do for the basic level of embalming?
Pickling
Hieroglyphic sign meaning "life" or "to live"
What is Ankh?
Custom where it was believed that the soul hovered around the burial place and required constant attention from the living.
What was the Roman Animistic View on death?
A container used for the body beginning in the Early Dynastic Egyptian period made of limestone, marble or granite.
What is a sarcophagus?
Ra/Re
Who is the Sun God?
From the Greek meaning "city of the dead," this is where families went to make arrangements.
Necropolis
The son of Seb and Nut who killed his brother Osiris
Who is Set/Seth?
Often depicted with a jackal head, this god was tasked with watching over the ceremonial weighting of the heart of the dead.
Who was Anubis?
The Greek god of the nether world.
Who is Hades?
Thot
Who records the results of the weighing of the heart?
This flat top building with sloping sides is the most common tomb in Egypt.
Mastaba
A symbolic dung beetle that represents the Creator
What is Scarab?
The first period to have funerals.
What was the Paleolithic Period?
The dangerous world through which a boat carrying the sun god, Ra, and his companions, including the deceased, must travel every night.
What is the (Egyptian) underworld?
Ma'at feather
What the heart is weighed against in the Hall of Judgement?
This is a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium chloride, and sodium sulphate used to soak linen during the process of mummification.
Natron
The god of wisdom, known for recording the weighing of hearts after death
Who is Thoth?
The culture who believed in the religious importance of the head and would cut the heads off of enemies after battle.
Who were the Celtics?
The ferryman to the Greek underworld who you have to pay a coin for passage.
Who is Charon?
Great House
What does "Pharaoh" mean?
What is the breakup of the 70 day rule?
15 days for cleansing
40 days drying
15 days wrapping, bandaging, and painting
A fire-spitting cobra, the protector of kings/gods
What is Uraeus?
This culture was known for immersing bodies in earthen jars with honey or wax.
Who were the Babylonians?
The third and final part of of the Greek funeral procession; the feast.
What is the Perideipnon?