Why were mummies made?
we identify mummies with Egypt, though other cultures had mummies also. The Inca’s had their “ice” mummies. However mummifying had great religious significance in Eygypt. Mummification was believed to assure the passage into the next life. Some believed the person lived on in the tomb while others held the soul went into the after-life. This being so preparations were made for both, a fail-safe as it were. Big wigs and middle class with few common people for the process was expensive. The word mummy actual came from an Arabic word, mumiyah, which means perserved by wax or bitumen, as the Arabs mis-understood how the Egyptians perserved the body. Certains cults believed that the Ba(body), Ka(spirit guide) and the soul made up the person. The soul reside somewhere in the body and at death, flew away. The soul was believed to look like a bird with the face of the deceased. Upon release it flew all around the world but at night returned to the tomb for refuge from evil spirits, and so it h
