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Thanatology Final Exam Questions
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Who had the most influence upon Western funeralization? - ✔✔the great ancient civilization of Egypt;

influenced the practice of embalming, beliefs/ concepts of the afterlife.


What was Egypitan polytheistic belief? - ✔✔Osiris was their god of the dead and the underworld; they

believed in multiple gods who represented multiple powers and things


Why did the Egyptians embalm? - ✔✔they believed there was life after death so the body must be

preserved


What was embalming considered in Egyptian times? - ✔✔a religious ceremony


What was seen by the various levels of embalming/mummification options that were offered to Egyptian

people? - ✔✔social stratification played a role in the type of embalming


What were canopic jars used for? - ✔✔they contained the internal organs of the decedent


What was considered the center of the universe for Egyptians? - ✔✔the sun was the focus of the universe

from which all things originated and returned


Define: Ba, Ka and why the Egyptian dead needed constant attention - ✔✔Ba - the spirit of the individual

who traveled to and from the tomb


Ka- The physical double that stayed with the body




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Families and friends in Egypt needed to visit and make food or goods offerings to the deceased often in

order to ensure them a good afterlife


Kher-heb - ✔✔in ancient egypt, the priest was also oversaw the embalming and funeralization of ancient

egyptians


What does the word sarcophagus mean? - ✔✔flesh eater


Define: anthropoid - ✔✔human-shaped


Who were responsible for cremation as we know it? - ✔✔the ancient greeks


What was the mood towards death of the Ancient Greeks? - ✔✔feared death as it was seen to be evil and

bad


Define: necropolis - ✔✔city of the dead


Suttee - ✔✔the Hindu custom of cremating a widow on her husband's funeral pyre; self or group inflicted

cremation


stelae - ✔✔shaft like tombs with upright slabs of stone carved with figures


kiones - ✔✔column like tombs


trapazae - ✔✔square cut tombs


naidia - ✔✔temple like tombs


What was originated during the time of the Ancient Greeks? - ✔✔funeral feasts; people would fast from

the time of death and then eat after the burial of the deceased


Who was the Ancient Greek cult god? - ✔✔The cult of Dionysus is also a "cult of the souls"; his maenads

feed the dead through blood-offerings, and he acts as a divine communicant between the living and the

dead.



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