{"pk":3981,"title":"Funerary Rituals (Pharaonic Period)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Upon death, the Egyptian was the object of a series of ceremonies performed by priestly officiants. The stages of the procedure largely correspond to the practical steps taken following death. These were: taking the corpse to a place of embalming, the embalming itself, taking the corpse to the tomb, and interment. The words and actions of the rituals superimposed upon these practical matters had a clear metaphysical purpose: funerary rituals were intended to elevate the mortal to the superhuman.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"death"},{"word":"Akh"},{"word":"Ka"},{"word":"sacrifice"},{"word":"Pyramid Texts"},{"word":"Coffin Texts"},{"word":"Book of the Dead"},{"word":"embalming"},{"word":"mummification"},{"word":"Hour Vigil"},{"word":"Procession to Abydos"},{"word":"Procession to Sais"},{"word":"Opening of the Mouth"},{"word":"mortuary cult"},{"word":"offering ritual"},{"word":"letters to the dead"},{"word":"judgment of the dead"},{"word":"Osiris"},{"word":"Horus"},{"word":"ISIS"},{"word":"Nephthys"},{"word":"Seth"},{"word":"Anubis"},{"word":"Thoth"},{"word":"liturgy"},{"word":"Archaeological Anthropology"},{"word":"Near Eastern Languages and Societies"},{"word":"Other Religion"}],"section":"Religion","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r32g9zn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Harold","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hays","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universiteit Leiden","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-01-18T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2008-01-18T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2010-01-22T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3981/galley/2557/download/"}]}