MUMMIFICATION

REMOVE THE BRAIN

• Use sharp hook and enter into the left nostril.
• Then break the bone that separates the nasal cavity from the brain cavity.
• Next use a long hook to stir up the brain until it becomes liquified.
• Turn the body upside down so the brain will come out.

REMOVE THE ORGANS

• Use a sharp blade made out of sharpened stone and make an incision in the left abdomen.
• Take out the stomach, liver, intestines, and lungs.
• Dry the organs out in natron salt.

PLACE THEM IN CANOPIC JARS

• After the organs are removed, store the organs in canopic jars.
• The liver should be stored in the canopic jar with Imsety the human-headed god.
• The lungs should be stored in the canopic jar with Hapy the baboon-headed god.
• The stomach should be stored in the canopic jar with Duamutef the jackal-headed god.
• The intestines should be stored in the canopic jar with Qebehsenuef the falcon-headed god.

CLEANSING THE BODY

• Wash the body with wine and rub the body with spices.
• The wine will kill bacteria in the body.
• Cover the body with natron salt wait forty days for the body to dry.
• When dry the skin is shrunken and will feel leathery.
• So clean the body again and rub sacred oils to soften the skin.

STUFFING THE BODY

• Now that the skin has been rubbed and softened you will stuff the body.
• Where the organs used to be you need to stuff the body with sawdust, rags, and chaff.
• To plump other parts of the bodies push mud into tiny cuts in parts of the skin.
• This will make the mummy look normal and not shriveled up.

LOOKING NORMAL

• You may add false eyes and false hair to make the mummy look alive again.
• You can make the false eyes out of onions.

WRAPPING THE BODY

• It will take about 15 days to wrap the body in linen.
• You will need 20 layers if linen.
• To wrap the body start from the head and work your way down the body.
• Secure the linen with linen strips.

ACCESSORIES

• Finger and toe stalls are preferred if they can afford them.
• Amulets should be tucked in the bandages.
• A portrait mask that looks like you.
• F.Y.I these are suggestions the body doesn't have to have these.

COFFINS

• Put the mummy in a sturdy coffin.
• Make sure there are pictures of the gods so that it will protect the mummy.

TOMBS

• The body's best goods will be placed inside its tomb.
• The tomb will have paintings on the walls and statues in it.

FUNERAL

• The body will be carried across the river when the sun sets.
• The main priest embalmer will wear the mask of Anubis and do the opening of the mouth ceremony.