Mummification In The Afterlife

Afterlife - Top Three

Many Egyptians believed in the afterlife and that it was a happy place. After a person passes away, a spirit called the Ka lived on. Most pharaohs were mummified by embalmers, or people who embalm mummies, to preserve the royal Ka. Why did they mummify only Egyptians from the elite?
An elite is a person of wealth and power, and only Egypt’s elite could be mummified because they were the only ones with enough money to be mummified. The mummification process starts when the god Anubis prepared the body. After the body was prepared, embalmers would cut open the body and remove all the organs except for the heart. The organs were kept in a jar next to the mummified body. Next, embalmers applied special oils and a special substance
Egyptians believed that these five parts were what made up a person. The Akh was the physical body. The Akh was referred to when describing a living or dead body. The Akh was made up of all five of these distinctive elements. The Ba was a person’s personality. It made each and every one person unique. In hieroglyphs, the Ba was referred to as a bird with a human head. The Ba was believed to be able to fly through both worlds, both the afterlife and the world of the living. Everyone was born with a Ka. The Ka was a life force. It was pictured as a very little man next to the same man that was much larger. Other times, it was represented with two outstretched arms, which was a sign to ward off evil. As a person died, the Ka continued to live, still needing the same nutritions as it did if the body were still alive. Instead of eating real food, they would absorb the life giving force that paintings of food had. Stated in paragraph four, your name had to be written down to be able to enter the afterlife. The fifth part of a person is the shadow. The Shadow is known to have great power. It was considered