anyone know how to mummify?

Question

Provide a clear discription of the mummification process and get the 10 points.

Answer 1

1. purify the body by washing it with water
2. make an incision on the left side of the body below the heart
3. remove the liver, lungs, intestines, and stomache. leave the heart intact
4. put each of the 4 organs you have removed into it's own jar
5. insert the hooked tool into the deceased nostril and pull the brain out through the nose and dispose it
6. cover the body in natron (natural salt, conposed of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate with sodium chloride and sodium sulfate) it will dehydrate the body
7. allow the body to drain for 40 days
8. when the body is dehydrated, wrap the natron-soaked gauze or bandage around it from head to toe
9. decorate the mummy or put a mask on it

Answer 2

When I taught 6th Grade my class mummified a chicken when we studied Egypt. Now we didn't get a whole chicken, we got one that was at the market. Want to mummify a human? Here goes:

1st: Wash the body completely. Remove the brain using a long hook inserted into the nose. The ancient Egyptians believed the brain was an unimportant organ.

2nd: Open the chest cavity and remove organs. Pack them into canopic jars that have been packed with natron, a type pf salt found in Egypt. Also, insert packs of stuffed natron into the chest cavity to absorb body fluids inside the body and maintain the shape of the body.

3rd. Pack the body in more natron. Place the body on a table that is tilted. This will allow the bodily fluids to drain off.
Change the natron every month to 2 1/2 months until the body is dessicated.

4th. Remove the natron and wash and clean the body. Oil it and rub it briskly with perfumes.

5th. Begin to wrap the body. Place protective amulets inside the wrapping as you wrap the body in order to protect it on it's journey to the underworld.

6th. After placing the body in one of several coffins, surround the body with several shabtis...small dolls that have magical spells written on them. The idea being that the dead person will be able to call upon the shabti, utter the spell that is written on the shabti, and the shabti will come to life and do the bidding of the dead person.

7th. Place the body and it's coffins into a large wooden sarcophagus. Place in another that has been painted with scenes from the Weighing of the Heart as well as spells and incantations that will protect the person's ka as it travels through the underworld.

8th. If the person was important enough, place the last wooden sarcophagus into a large gold sarcohpagus.

Answer 3

Every one here so far has referred to the egyptian mummies you can find in noble or royal egyptian tombs. BUT mummification simply refers to the conservation of the body. This can also be only partial. The bacterial decomposition process has to be stopped. This can be achieved by lack of oxygen, dryness, coldness or chemicals. There are far more mummies than the one you find in noble egyptian tumbs. The poorer egyptians, for example, buried their deads in cemetaries which were in the desert for some of them. The dry weather has mummified a lot of those.
In the Andes, mummies are found at high altitudes. here there is a lack of oxygen and it's quite cold, thus providing mummification. In Nepal, there are similar mummies.
In northern Germany and Danmark, Mummies can be found in swamps. The lack of oxygen there ensures the conservation fo the body. However, the high acidity in these swamps dissolved DNA and bones. But skin and stuff is perfectly conserved.

This enumeration is not exhaustive.

Answer 4

Everyone knows the Egyptian method but where you aware there was a method perfected by Japanese monks were one could mummify themselves and start while they were still alive?

" Scientific study of the mummies and the process that created them only began in the early 1960's. It was generally expected that the mummies studied would show signs of having been mummified after death by other priests, in much the way Egyptian mummies -- and almost all other mummies on Earth -- have been created. The first step in that process is the removal of the internal organs, because the bacteria in these begin the process of decomposition within hours of death; with these removed, it is relatively easy to prepare, dry, and preserve the remainder of the body. But x-rays discounted this expectation... the internal organs were intact, which meant that mummification had been accomplished in some new way that scientists had not yet encountered. So the process itself was next investigated.


The actual practice was first pioneered by a priest named Kuukai over 1000 years ago at the temple complex of Mount Kooya, in Wakayama prefecture. Kuukai was founder of the Shingon sect of Buddhism, which is the sect that came up with the idea of enlightenment through physical punishment. There were three steps in the process of self-mummification that Kuukai proposed, and the full process took upwards of ten years to lead to a successful mummification.


The first step is a change of diet. The priest was only allowed to eat nuts and seeds that could be found in the forests surrounding his temple; this diet had to be stuck to for a 1000 day period, a little under three years. During this time, the priest was to continue to subject himself to all sorts of physical hardship in his daily training. The results were that the body fat of the priest was reduced to nearly nothing, thus removing a section of the body that easily decomposes after death.


In the second stage, the diet became more restrictive. The priest was now only allowed to eat a small amount of bark and roots from pine trees (mokujiki). This had to be endured for another 1000 day period, by the end of which the priest looked like a living skeleton. This also decreased the overall moisture contained in the body; and the less fluid left in the body, the easier to preserve it.


Towards the end of this 1000 day period, the priest also had to start to drink a special tea made from the sap of the urushi tree. This sap is used to make laquer for bowls and furniture; but it is also very poisonous for most people. Drinking this tea induced vomenting, sweating, and urination, further reducing the fluid content of the priest's body. But even more importantly, the build up of the poison in the priest's body would kill any maggots or insects that tried to eat the priest's remains after death, thus protecting it from yet another source of decay.


The third and last step of the process was to be entombed alive in a stone room just big enough for a man to sit lotus style in for a final 1000 day period. As long as the priest could ring a bell each day a tube remained in place to supply air; but when the bell finally stopped, the tube was removed and the tomb was sealed.


When the tomb was finally opened, the results would be known. Some few would be fully mummified, and immediately be raised to the rank of Buddha; but most just rotted and, while respected for their incredible endurance, were not considered to be Buddhas. These were simply sealed back into their tombs. But why did some mummify and some not? This is the tricky part of the whole process.


It is not clear if this is part of the process as set down by Kuukai, but in Yamagata is a sacred spring. This spring is on a mountain called Yudono, which is in fact the third sacred mountain of the three I visited in 1998. Many of the priests in the area considered both the water and the mineral deposits from this spring to have medicinal value, and may have injested one or both previous to their entombment. An analysis of the spring water and deposits revealed that they contain enough arsenic to kill a human being! Arsenic does not get eliminated from the body, so it remains after death... and it is toxic to bacteria and other micro-organisms, so it eliminated the bacteria that started the decompostion of the body.


As you can see, the process of self-mummification was a long and extremely painful process that required a mastery of self-control and denial of physical sensation. The self-made mummies of Japan are people who have earned the respect now shown to them, as they exemplify the teachings of the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism".

God Bless You and Our Southern People.

Answer 5

If you want to mummify a body like the egypt mummy, I do not know. If it is for a small thing to keep for always, read my experience.

My granfather was a magnetisor and he used to train us (grankids) to mummify little things to train our fluid energy.
I did it with meat, vegetal, egg (broken on a plate....)

You need to spend few times a day for 1 week or a little bit more around 10 minutes.
Your hand on top of the objet to mummify, palm down, you send your fluid on it like you want to irradiate it with you subtil energy, your aura. Concentration and perseverance will pay.
After your 10 minutes of work, you hide you objet on a dry, cool and dark place (not the fridge)until the next session. A closet would work fine.
I kept some peace of meat i mummified more than 25 years ago and an egg in a plate, the white is always like cristal.

good fluid

Answer 6

Easy.

First you go out to a singles bar or something like that. You'll spot a guy on the dancefloor and judge him solely on the way he dances. His intellect means absolutely nothing. If you have a keen eye you'll pick the guy with the biggest bulge in his pants -- that would be his wallet.

You'll date for awhile. He'll treat you like royalty and act like a perfect gentleman. Consider yourself lucky if he's able to keep up with your sexual needs. One day you'll wake up and find that you're pregnant. Your beau is now under obligation to propose to you, which he does after getting good and drunk. Chivalry goes out the window.

You get married anyways. You eat a magic food called 'wedding cake' when you suddenly are overcome with a feeling that you no longer want to have sex for the rest of your life. You rush to the mirror and watch your buttocks grow before your eyes. You wonder how you ended up with this guy as every minute he's around you wonder what life would have been like if you were single. Every minute he's away, you want him home answering to your every beckoning call.

You have a baby. You're a mum. You trade in your g-string for granny underwear. He's a pop. He trades in his Mustang for a minivan. Suddenly all of your differences mean nothing. You're a family now. Congratulations. You've been mummified.

Answer 7

grap a roll of T.P. and have your friend hold one end while you rund around them in a circle completely covering their body with the fluffy white paper material.. Oila, a mummy!

Answer 8

watch "The Mummy", it's all there.

first, they wrap up the corpse.
then they pour in a swarm of scarabs. they believe these scarabs have the ability to preserve the dead bodies.

Answer 9

hell yeh, i watch national geographic every night. gottal pull out those damn brains and soak them in a mixture to suck all the liquids with salt and alcohol and crocodile dung.

Answer 10

Uuuuu .You mean on a person?