Narnia The topography of the afterlife might be similar to the topography in the Chronicles of Narnia. Narnia is created, as a place where the author feels is his favorite. In each aspect there is a different topography, but they all somehow connect together and relate to the author’s life. There are many mythical creatures created simply because the author felt as though it was a place where all things could happen. There is not always peace in a place like this because evil could always invade at any particular point in time. The majority of Narnia is a very happy place with common activities that would occur here on Earth. Every day and week is said to be better than the last, it never gets worse just gets better. Narnia is a parallel …show more content…
There are five rivers: the Styx, Lethe, Acheron, Phlegethon, and Cocytus. The river Styx forms the boundary between earth and the underworld. The river Lethe is the underworld river of oblivion where the dead would drink the river’s water to forget their existence. The river Acheron, often referred to as a lake, is the river of woe that separates the lower world from the upper world. The river Phlegethon is one of several rivers of fire that joins with the Acheron, while the river Cocytus is one that represents mourning and …show more content…
The body would be completely dry, to stop decomposition while maintaining a life-like appearance. The body was first washed in an antiseptic salt solution. The internal organs were removed and dried. The brain was removed through the nose with a sharp instrument. The body was filled with sand to keep its original shape. The ear, nostrils, eyes, were sewn shut. Then a 15 day bandaging stage begins. The variety of Egyptian gods and goddesses and their worship existed relatively unchanged the entire history of Egypt. It was believed that if the body was preserved, the soul could enter the
According to the Romans, people are sent to the River of Forgetfulness so they can reincarnate into another life. However, those who have acted badly in their lives do not have the option of reincarnation reincarnation, and, instead, must stay in perdition forever. The Blackfeet Indians believed in a ghost camp afterlife where all the dead went In the reading it did never say if good or bad people live there or if all dead people go there or only some; in this story there isn’t much information discussing the afterlife so I don’t really understand everything about what they thought would happen to you after death. The third myth is about what the Mantu think about the afterlife. In neither of the stories it really discusses much about it, the first myth the Man who would shoot Iruwa just talks about how the sun gods guard the underworld nothing more. In the second myth the girl who Wanted New Teeth all it talks about regarding the afterlife is that the chief, Imana brought back the woman’s children. One of the most interesting things in it was the egyptian mythology. It says once before entering the
Ancient Egyptian culture was largely focused on the afterlife. One of their most important deities, Osiris, became the ruler of the Underworld through death. The pharaoh and elite class prepared for their impending deaths throughout their lives. Much of what survives from ancient Egypt today was found in tombs and temples of the dead. When one of the elite died, the process of laying him or her to rest was extensive. Harold Hays explains that “the ritualized process of embalming and mummification is usually stated as lasting seventy days” (Hays 5). "Funeral Procession, Tomb of Pairy" shows two of the processes that Hays details. The first depicted is the procession to the tomb. Pairy’s body would have already been through several processions, mummification, and embalming. This particular procession’s goal is to lead not just the body, but also the spirit into the afterlife. People of both high and low classes attended this procession, carrying with them the tomb goods (Hays 6-7). The second depicted
illogical to some, the reasons for embalming the dead made perfect sense to the Egyptians. Mummification kept corpses in a desiccate, pristine condition; the body must be suitable for the owner’s spirit to return for a rendezvous, as per Egyptian belief (Evans, 20)....
The landscapes in The Lord of the Rings are crucial to the storyline. Tolkien has created a quest narrative in which physical landmasses, nature, and geography play a huge role in every scene. He develops the world of Middle-earth in such a way that it perfectly resembles a real life realm. By using every major component of our Primary world, he is able to fabricate a new one with indescribable quality and realistic attributes. Additionally, Tolkien uses the landscapes to enhance every scene, to further illustrate the importance of the events, and what impact they have on the storyline. We see this specifically in the Dead Marshes, Minas Tirith, the Dark Tower, and Lothlórien. The physical characteristics of each of these locations complement the immeasurable meaning of each event, the tone of the scene, and the emotions of the characters as they endure every struggle. Finally, Tolkien develops the landscapes in The Lord of the Rings to create motifs that follow the characters throughout the entire story. We see this with the road’s importance to the journey, the landscape being a physical representation of the characters in that environment, the state of nature emulating the status of the world, and the image of the physical journey as a figurative depiction of human experience. Throughout all of this, we can plainly see that the landscape is a key component to Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
The Egyptian Process of Mummification In ancient Egyptian society, preserving a body after death was an important process necessary for entrance into an immortal existence. According to Egyptian belief, the soul did not die. The soul would take the form of a bird, usually a falcon, and fly around in the world of the living returning later its dead body. The importance of preserving the body revolved around the idea that the roaming soul would be able to recognize the right body and return to it.
The underworld was divided into several regions. There were five subterranean rivers which flowed through the underworld (Joe). They were Acheron (Woe), Cocytus (Wailing), Lethe (Forgetfulness), Phlegethon (Fire), and Styx (Abhorrence) (Joe). All souls would have to travel through the five rivers before they were judged and sent to their final residing place to wander for all eternity. The underworld also consisted of two mai...
The time period for Egyptian mummification is from their Predynastic Period (4650-3050 BC) until after the New Kingdom (1069 BC-395 AD). The Egyptians believed in Polytheism, which the religion of worshiping more than one god. Since they believed in more than one god, they believed in Osiris, the earthbound god of the dead, and Re, the sun god. These two gods were critical to the Egyptians, because they counted on those two gods to lead people into the afterlife. In order to achieve the afterlife, a proper burial had to take place for the dead. The Table of Sinuhe, a twelfth dynasty text, described the preparation for a funeral for someone who is elite in Egypt, which included: constructing the grave on an elite location, with both a public chapel and a private burial chamber. The Egyptians did this to preserve the name of the deceased, and their objects that were given to the deceased to help guide them to the afterlife. The family of the deceased then needed to choose which of the three embalming processes was right for them. There were three types of mummification processes: there was the most expensive and most elaborate process; the second way contained some of the steps from the first way to embalm a person, but was very limited; and the last way would be the cheapest and least elaborate way to embalm someone. The embalmer was astute man, who was respected and had the same privileges as the priests did. Nevertheless, this belief in life after death affected the population of Egypt and their art, architecture, technology, and their legal practices, which would be that no one could do any damage to a dead body. Historians find all this information from two writers, who wrote different pieces of text on mummification.
The omnipotent Egyptians ruled all of there empire with total absolute control, ruled by an absolute monarch, the Pharaoh. The pharaoh decided the right procedure to follow for just about everything that happened in ancient Egypt. From the Encyclopedia Britannica Egyptian religion, “The task of the king as the protagonist of human society was to retain the benevolence of the gods in maintaining order against disorder” (Britannica). The burial practices for the average Egyptian citizen was very different than for a Pharaoh. The average citizen would be buried in the desert, wrapped in cloth and with some food and treasured possessions, not much need for protection. The Pharaoh planned his whole life for exactly how the burial ritual would be remembered and how Pharaoh could protect his legacy for all eternity. The largest protector the world has ever seen is the Great Sphinx statue from the Giza funerary complex.
Egyptians did not want to die. They saw no reason why life should not go on when they were dead. When the Egyptians thought about what happened when they died, they decided that there would be another life in store for them. A life that lasts forever, just like their life on earth, with parties, hunting, games, and good meals. What is the definition of a mummy? Egyptians wanted to cheat death. They had to do many things to achieve the gift of rebirth into the after-life. They had to stay on the right side of the gods, and learn the correct magic spells. If the Egyptians wanted to cheat death, their bodies had to be carefully preserved, for all time. The most important part of a person was thought to be his or her spirit, or double, known as the “ka.”
The Egyptians believed that every person had a spirit that would live on after the human body died. The spirit would be able to move, eat, drink, and enjoy pleasures just like then the body was alive. But, in order to do this; the spirit had to have a recognizable body to dwell in. After the person died, the Egyptians believed that the spirit took two different forms: the ka and the ba.
The Egyptians during this period took ample time and detail on the mummification process to ensure a successful transition from the netherworld to rebirth. The Coffin of Tentkhonsu, 1025-980 B.C., it’s a depiction of how the Egyptians valued and honored their elite members of society, as well as their gods. The Coffin of Tentkhonsu, itself dates back to the III intermediate period in Egyptian culture. The Egyptian believe was to join Osiris, whom was believed to have ascended to Netherworld and accomplished eternal life.
There are multiple views on death and the afterlife and each view is different depending on the religion or belief that someone practices. Some religions believe in a heaven but not a hell, some believe in both and others do not believe in either. The religions that are practiced today were created by our ancient ancestors who had the ability to think beyond themselves. Practicing a religion and having an idea of death and an afterlife back in ancient times laid a foundation on how religion is seen and practiced today. Mesopotamians, Egyptians and Hindu’s created the concept of death and life after death through what they believed and practiced in ancient times.
The most common ancient Egyptian burial practice is the mummification process as depicted in source B. Mummification is a ritual that embalmers performed when a pharaoh died. Source B is a photograph of the canoptic jars which are a main component of the mummification process. The first step in the mummification process is the removal and preservation of most of the internal organs, such as the lungs, the stomach, the liver and intestines. These organs are then separately embalmed and placed into canoptic jars as source B reveals. These jars were often decorated with one of the four animal-headed sons of the god Horus. Each head is believed to be the protector of each organ within the jar and is dedicated to a specific deity. The preservation of the organs is significant as they allowed the dead person to breathe and eat in the afterlife. The internal organs were then wrapped and put into either the body or put in boxes instead of sitting in jars. Canoptic jars were still placed in the tomb but they were solid or empty and provided a symbolic purpose. In Tutankhamun’s tomb the canoptic jars were discovered in a shrine that was found in the treasury room of the tomb. Source B is useful is when understanding the mummification process.
The Egyptians believed very much in life after death. As Taylor states in Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, “It is often observed that they appear to have devoted greater efforts and resources to preparing for the afterlife than to creating a convenient environment for living” (Taylor, 2001:12). The Egyptians viewed life on earth as one stage and death as the beginning of another. They believed that, “human existence did not end with death and that survival of the body played a part in the new life” (Taylor, 2001:12). One of the key elements in the Egyptian culture and religion was the preservation of the body. The body was the most important aspect because it was like a portal through which an individual could continue to live after death (Taylor, 2001:46). The Egyptians began building tombs for these bodies to keep them from decaying.
The Egyptians did not understand how important the heart was in terms of blood circulation, as we understand it today. Their belief was that the heart was connected to all the other parts of the body, via canals, which were used to transport bodily fluids and waste to their appropriate locations. The brain’s only purpose was to transport mucus to the nose, and therefore it was overlooked when it came to preserving organs during the process of mummification.... ... middle of paper ...