Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Defining Words



The words I didn't know were
Cadavers: A corpse or lich, is a dead human body
Societal Outcasts: A person who is rejected, and sometimes isolated
Bogs: is a wetland that accumulates acidic peat
Transgressions: a crime usually created by social or economic boundary
Cryonics: A low temperature Preservation of humans and animals
Mummy: An ancient cadaver whose soft tissues has partially or wholly resisted decay

1. Mummies have been part on parts of the Andes, China, Europe and Egypt.
2. Mummies were usually found in wet and damp places such as bogs, you can also find mummies on really high altitudes such as the Andes, Some mummies are found indoors such as the Pyramids in Egypt.
3. Ancient Egyptians preserved the dead by wrapping the in linen and then putting them in a sarcophagus.
4. Ancient Egyptians took a lot of care to embalm the dead because they believed that the way there buried that's how there afterlife I going to look like, If they were buried with lots of treasures, they will be rich and powerful in there afterlife.
5. Wet areas such as bogs attentionality mummify people, also places without a lot of oxygen.
6. Some mummies were intentionally mummified in order to life an afterlife, others were executed and then mummified.

Questions
  1. Does mummification have to do with religion ?
  2. Do certain areas of the same religion mummify people while others don't?
  3. Do all culture's that believe in afterlife mummify?
  4. If a culture mummify's do they mummify every single person?
  5. Does your mummification depend on your place in the community?

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