Dr. Yekaterina Barbash
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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He can find the correct way and lead.
And he has a very keen sense of smell.
And he is responsible for embalming and mummification because...
You know, as the dead were embalmed and buried, usually in the west next to the desert, that's where the wild dogs and jackals hung around.
So they were seen as sort of protecting the deceased and being part of that whole process.
Definitely, that is the most best-known spell and probably the
most recognizable vignette from the Book of the Dead.
And it was very common in Book of the Dead manuscripts, but also it appears on coffins, cartonage, and so on.
So the weighing of the heart scene is usually attached actually to spell 125 that I already mentioned.
And so this is one of the ultimate goals of the deceased's journey through the underworld, is to get to Osiris's court.
And Osiris is pictured sitting on his throne.
Ankh-Meraire had
have him gilded beautifully, and there are 42 judges in the court.
They're usually pictured as mummiform, so their bodies look like those of bound, embalmed bodies, and they have a variety of animal and human heads.
And there's usually a large scale on which the heart of the deceased, which was really the seat of one's consciousness.
The Egyptians believed that the brain is only there to produce mucus and quite a necessary organ.
But the heart is where your thoughts and your consciousness resided.
And so the heart was typically mummified separately and ideally placed back into the body.
So on one side, you would have the heart, the consciousness of the deceased.
On the other side, you would have an image of the goddess Maad.
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