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History of Funeral Service – AAMI Questions & Answers Term funeral comes from Latin word Funeralis Term funeral comes from latin word funeralis meaning Torch Light Procession Funerals were almost always at night and "torch light led the way" Previous Play Next Rewind 10 s...

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Term funeral comes from - answer Latin word Funeralis

Term funeral comes from latin word funeralis meaning - answer Torch Light
Procession

Funerals were almost always at night and "torch light led the way"

Why are funerals slow - answer so torchlight would not extinguish

Western Culture is comprised of: (3) - answer Greek Aesthetics and philosophy -
what we read

Roman Law - our system of government

Judeo-Christian tradition - America founded by religious people

Most of the death customs in the US comes from - answer England

Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead - answer Osiris

Egyptians used embalming so that the soul could revisit the body after it completed the -
answer Circle of Necessity which took 3,000 years

Egyptians believed they would arise from the dead after 3,000 years and - answer
live with god thereafter

Egyptians were often unable to bury their dead because of (2) - answer the overflow
of the Nile river

keep the products of putrefaction out of the soil and generating a plague

Egyptians that could not afford to be embalmed utilized - answer Dry Burial

Dry Burial method - answer bodies buried in coarse cloth and laid upon a bed of
charcoal under 6 - 8 ft of sand

Why dry burial worked for egyptians - answer dry air and nitrous soil provided slow
and inoffensive decomposition

First Class of Egyptian Embalming reserved for - answer well to do and high of rank

,First class of Egyptian embalming was expensive and elaborate consisting of these
steps: (3) - answer 1 - Brain and viscera removed and placed in canopic jars

2 - head and body cavities washed and filled with spices

3 - Body was immersed in solution for 40 days the wrapped in linen

First class Egyptian embalming was immersed in a solution for - answer 40 days

Second class of Egyptian embalming (4) - answer 1 - Injected Cedar oil into body
without evisceration

2 - Soaked in Natron

3 - Cedar oil dissolved soft organs

4 - All that remained was skin and bones

type of salt that absorbed water - answer Natron

Third class of Egyptian embalming - answer For poorer class

Body soaked in soda for 70 days

Later they used pitch or bitumen

hard black mummy most identifiable by public utilized - answer bitumen or pitch

Canopic Jars - answer MESTA - Man headed jar

HAPI - Dog headed jar

TUAMTEF - Jackal headed jar

QEBHSENNUF - Hawk Headed jar

Man headed jar - answer MESTA

dog headed jar - answer HAPI

Jackal headed jar - answer TUAMTEF

Hawk headed jar - answer QEBHSENNUF

Most of what we know of embalming from this ear comes from - answer Herodotus

,Father of History from 484BC - 424BC - answer Herodotus

Egyptian and most early African culture used these to keep the body from touching the
earth (4) - answer Mats

Skin

Reeds

Wooden and Earthenware baskets

large ornamental coffin of stone or marble - answer Sarcophagus

man-resembling shaped commin - answer Anthropoid

EUS Egyptian Undertaking Specialist (6) - answer Kher-heb - priest or supervisor.
the one in charge

Surgeon - Chief embalmer

Scribe - made the mark for incision

Parachistes - made the incision

Apothecary - made aromatic powders, ointments, oils

Pollinctors - anointed the body with oils

EUS in charge - answer Kher-heb / priest / supervisor

EUS chief embalmer - answer Surgeon

EUS made the incision - answer parachistes

EUS made mark for the incision - answer Scribe

EUS made aromatic powders, ointments, oils - answer Apothecary

EUS anointed body with oils - answer Pollinctors

For Egyptians embalming was a ______ _____ but it was also a _______ _________ -
answer Religious ritual

physical operation

, Egyptian city of the dead

consisted of cemeteries and burial places - answer Necropolis

Egyptian places for preparation of the dead like our present day prep rooms - answer
Mortuary Temples

Greeks felt that death was - answer the harshest part of life

Early on, the greeks, felt the dead lived a - answer bodily existence under the earth

Greeks eventually believed that the dead were - answer disembodied souls

The greek ________ _____ theory accounted for the introduction of cremation - answer
disembodied soul

Greek pile of wood used for cremation - answer Pyre

_____ are credited with being among the first to cremate - answer Greeks

WRT Greeks, body was prepared by the______ - answer family

WRT Greeks, body was washed with _____ water by _____ - answer warm

women

WRT Greeks, body was laid out and dressed by______ - answer women

WRT Greeks, dead were clothed in... - answer White

WRT Greeks, body was viewed by friends and relatives for ___ day. Up to ___ days for
important persons - answer 1

7

Greek funeral processions began... - answer an hour before dawn

Greeks used a hand stretcher used to carry remains to the grave it was a - answer
Bier

Greek biers usualy carried by - answer Relatives

Friends

Paid corpse bearers

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