Egyptian Dreams

ShenAnkh · Citizen Joined: 17 May 2010 Posts: 15

Rejuvination yeah? it's Osiris. So why preserve your body/soul if Osiris can make you new or young again? Why would you need Anubis to preserve you if Osiris can grant you rejuvination? seems controdictory to me, even though this is not arguing the facts of mummification, I am just arguing 'Gods' for simple debate. I know/believe they had preserved the corpse to allow journey in the afterlife last longer, thinking if the body rotts that their soul/spirit will perish... but why do psychic people see ghosts of people who where incinirated? how can ancient spirits exist if their bodies don't even still lay on the earth?... did Egyptian's really think as hard about the afterlife as they claim? or did translation miss small facts that dreams and death where the same thing to Egyptians?
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Osiris II · Vizier Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 1752

Anpu in Egyptian also
In(e)pu, Imeut

Anubis (Greek) was the old caretaker of the ce- meteries. From circa dy- nasty five he was con- sidered to be the son of the solar god Re.
Later he was also con- nected to the vast Osiris cult as his son with the goddess Nephtys.
(See the Myth of Osiris). He was depicted as a jackal or a man with a jackal's head and was originally a local god from Abydos in Upper Egypt. He guided the deceased to the next life via the Court of Osiris in the Underworld. Embalming of the dead was a main task of his (without "competition" from other gods) and he was the subject of the mortuary prayers in funerals. His fame was constantly on top du- ring all periods of the long Egyptian history.

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Thanks for the information neseret, this makes forum’s like this one so interesting.

Here we find people who have interest in Egyptology, off wich some study it as an hobby, like me, but also people who study it on professional basis and share their knowledge with the other members.

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BTW: Did anyone execute Neseret's Google search? The original link adds up to 334, replace Egypt with "kemet" and an additional 4 are found, so the grand total stops at 338, that is what has been found so far...

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Ma'a-mu-khr'w · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:33 am Post subject:

Em-Hotep-Rh'ekh,

There is a common assumption/belief (I have come to find) amongst many followers of the Modern Kemetic Faith, that cremation is 'ok' because you still have a body on earth; it's just ash. I personally do not agree with this statement or belief; especially if you are going to call yourself Kemetic.

I understand that this forum is not a religious one; though I am a 'Child of Netjer' so I apologize in advance if this post becomes a bit bias towards the ancient religious views. The body needed to be preserved. This was the cornerstone of the ancient Egyptian belief for the afterlife. If you did not have a body on earth, your soul would have no home on earth; thus it could not receive offerings (either physical or magical) and thus the soul would 'perish'; suffering a fate the Egyptian called 'Second-Death.'

Anubis was the guardian of the dead; and yes, he was the embalmer. This belief arose from the famous myth in which it is Anubis who embalms his father Osiris in Linen to keep his dismembered body together which Isis had re-built. It was truth not the act of the mummification which brought Osiris back to life, it was the 'Breath of Life' which Isis breathed into his corpse after death. This 'Breath of Life' 'rejuvenated' Osiris. (One must also understand how the Egyptians used the word 'rejuvenate.' They used it a lot, and not just in a context of death. In many beautiful hymns to Ra does it say "...May your brilliant rays rejuvenate my skin every day..." This word did not necessarily mean what is does to us as it did to them. The word did not always mean to 'make young,' it was conceived as meaning to 'bring to life'

Osiris could not exist as he does without Anubis (Inpu) and vis-versa Inpu could not exist without Usir (Osiris). In reality, each Netjer (or God) could not exist without the other; each of them complete each other. Just as we cannot live with only a heart, the Netjeru cannot exist with only one.

Also, it is very true that many people would not have been buried in such finely crafted tombs of stone or mud-brick. Many peasant desired to be buried near to the wealthy as if to 'hitch a ride' to the afterlife through the portal of their tomb. Many of the poor could not even afford mummification, and thus their bodies were left to be mummified by nature... as the tradition began. Either way; either through mummification or the desert, a person's body was preserved' the most important aspect of attaining existence in the Field of Reeds.

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