2007-03-15 08:42:20 · 15 answers · asked by NANAZE 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I don't think they had a fascination with death so much as the after life and what it entailed.
2007-03-15 08:45:21 · answer #1 · answered by feeling cheesy? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They didn't, they had a fascination with life. Their fascination with the afterlife was a way of continuing life past death. They built an elaborate set of rituals for ensuring that their entry into the afterlife was a good one. They supplied themselves with all thier needs and wants for the afterlife. They weren't morbid, they didn't dwell on death. they dwelt on LIFE after death.
In the same way that Christians and others promote heaven and an afterlife of peace, the Egyptians believed in an afterlife.
Its amazing, really, when you get to studying it and find that the ancient Egyptians believed in the same type of judgement, the same type of "heaven and hell" concepts that Christianity does.
2007-03-15 08:50:47 · answer #2 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, except that the interest in their gods kind of created an intense interest in the afterlife in general.
However, you ask that like we don't have as much a fascination with death today.
Anytime anyone dies, most people want all the details. We're just as morbid now as they were in ancient Egypt.
2007-03-15 09:20:08 · answer #3 · answered by CrazyChick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The entire civilization of Ancient Egypt was based on religion, and their beliefs were important to them. Their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices...... The Egyptians believed that death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through Mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment.
2007-03-15 08:47:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't much of a fascination.... it was part of their culture during that time. People believed that if a person died, their spirit or soul can move on to the other side safely.
2007-03-15 09:42:54 · answer #5 · answered by 3lixir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pharaoh was considered a god. They wanted to build a tomb worth of him and fill it with treasure to take to the next life. Since grave robbing was a problem even back in those days, they had to come up with more and more elaborate ways to keep grave robbers out.
2007-03-15 08:50:25 · answer #6 · answered by don n 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't a fascination with death. It was a fascination with the afterlife. They believed that you continued
2007-03-15 08:45:51 · answer #7 · answered by JORDAN 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree that they were not facinated with life, but the afterelife. They spent their lives here on earth preparing for,the afterlife. The egyptians were a very compicated, but facinating culture.
2007-03-15 08:56:23 · answer #8 · answered by kanei 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure that they did, to any greater extent than you or I. The reason we think they do is because of the way they prepared their important people for burial, the dry desert environment etc, which has left a lot of remains of death and that is what archaeologists have explored. We think of Tutankhamen's tomb and sarcophagus because that it what is left of him, not of what he did and thought whilst he was alive.
2007-03-15 08:52:31 · answer #9 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has a fascination with death. The concept of our mortality has driven us for a long long time.
FP
2007-03-15 08:45:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋