FSE112- Midterm Study Guide Exam Questions With 100% Verified & Correct Answers
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What is Pagan? - ANSWER-Idolatrous or heathen. Refers to beliefs and practices devoted to worshiping idols or multiple gods, prior to Christ
Common belief of people considered to be Pagan? - ANSWER-Man's obligation are limited to man itself and human relations. Reincarnation, object or idol wors...
FSE112- Midterm Study Guide Exam Questions With 100% Verified & Correct Answers
What is Pagan? - ANSWER-Idolatrous or heathen. Refers to beliefs and practices devoted to worshiping idols or multiple gods, prior to Christ
Common belief of people considered to be Pagan? - ANSWER-Man's obligation are limited to man itself and human relations. Reincarnation, object or idol worship, and nature worship. Body and soul always connected, the soul is never freed from the body.
Is Western culture mostly pagan or something else today? - ANSWER-Western culture is a composition of Greek aesthetics and philosophy, Roman law, and administrative capabilities, all incorporated into our dominant Judaeo-Christian tradition
Why was the sun important to early Egyptians? - ANSWER-Because the sun was believed to be the center and focus of the universe. Everything came from and returned to the sun.
Who was Osiris? - ANSWER-The god of the underworld and judge of the dead. Known as fertility god and god of the Nile River
Cult of Osiris? - ANSWER-Attributed a divine origin to the soul and believed that throughout life it was engaged in a constant struggle with good and evil. If you were justified, after judged by Osiris, you passed into perpetual happiness and if you were condemned, into perpetual misery.
What was the circle of Necessity? - ANSWER-A 3000 year journey the soul was required to make before it could return to the body. After that the whole man would rise from the dead and live with the gods forever. How did the plague, or threat thereof, affect the burial customs of the early Egyptians? - ANSWER-They devised burial methods that limited contamination of the soil. Dry burial was common. Much less expensive than embalming and more available to the masses.
Why was embalming practiced in the early Egyptian society? - ANSWER-To preserve the body for the afterlife since they believed life after death was literal.
How did Egyptian social classes vary in their embalming techniques? - ANSWER-3 different classes, each varied in expense
What were canopic jars? - ANSWER-Containers used to store body organs
Different canopic jars and designs - ANSWER-4 jars were used, each had a carved figure on them. Specific organs were placed in each jar. They were representative of the
4 children of Horus
Mestha jar - ANSWER-Man-headed, protected the stomach and large intestines
Hapi jar - ANSWER-Dog-headed, guarded the small intestine
Tuamutef jar - ANSWER-jackal-headed, watched over the lungs and heart
Oebhsenuf jar - ANSWER-hawk-headed, protected the liver and gall bladder
Egyptian embalming technique 1 - ANSWER-Removal of the brain and viscera, embalmed separately and placed in a series of jars. Cavity and head were washed and filled with resins and spices. Body was immersed in soda solution for 40 days, and then wrapped in linen.
Egyptian embalming technique 2 - ANSWER-Involved injecting cedar oil into the body cavities without evisceration. Was then laid on a bed of natron. After this, the cedar oil was removed, having dissolved the soft organs and the body, its flesh was also dissolved and reduced to preserved skin and bones.
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