The The Canopic Jars And The Internal Organs In The Ancient Egypt Mummification
Published 2024-07-20
Keywords
- Canopic Jars,
- Egyptian Mummification,
- Four Sons Of Horus,
- Internal Organs,
- Egyptian Cosmovision
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Abstract
The Egyptian mummification process is one of the most characteristic of the ancient north-African culture; it was packed of different and interesting facets and meanings which looked for prepare and provide the deceased of and for anything that they would need in the other life. One of the most important processes of body’s physic conservation and symbolic protection was the extraction of the internal organs, specifically the lungs, the stomach, the liver, and the intestines, which were introduced in special containers named canopic jars, whose function was to protect the internal organs of the deceased who they belonged to. The canopic jars had moulded in their lids the Four Sons of Horus’s heads who, along with other Protection Goddess and according to the Egyptian cosmovision, performed the task described.
The following paper looks for remark the most important generalities of these canopic jars when they acquire the shape of the mentioned Four Sons of Horus’s heads in their lids, plus talking about the organs treatment when they were taken out of the abdominal cavity.
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