Thursday, September 25, 2008

How to Make a Mummy

By Iggy

First they cut the abdomen to take out the stomach, intestine, and the liver; then they take out the brain by using a hook and wash it out with water. Second they filled the body with natron. It is a kind of salt that can drain the fats and put the body in a slanting table to wash away the liquid in the body. They leave the natron for thirty to forty days and then take out the natron in the body to dry it. Third, rub it with perfume and wash it with milk and wine then they put mud and linen to make the nose stay up and make the body into its normal form. Last, they put jewels and amulets then they wrap it with twenty layers of cloth and they put the mask on the body because the spirit can’t recognize its body without its mask. Then they put it in the mummy case and place it in the tomb.