Content
Interesting Facts: Why Did the Ancient Egyptians Mummify Animals
18.12.2023 20:00
Updated: 13.05.2024 21:21
Pets were so beloved that the Egyptians wanted them to have eternal life, so they mummified them after death and buried them.
Why did the Egyptians worship animals
The sacred animals of Egypt were honored and respected, they were worshiped and considered deities.
The presence in the pantheon of deities with animal heads and mummified burials indicate that in the Egyptian worldview, four-legged and feathered animals could influence their destinies like celestial beings.
What animals did the Egyptians mummify
The ancient Egyptians believed that their gods could take on different forms and often depicted them as animals.
For example, the daughter of Ra - the goddess Bast - was painted as a cat or a woman with a cat's head.
She personified almost everything good that is in human life: joy, love, home and fertility.
In Ancient Egypt, cats exterminated rodents and thereby preserved reserves of grain, which at that time was worth its weight in gold.
The grateful Egyptians made them sacred animals.
Because of their ability to see perfectly in the dark, cats received the nickname “eye of the sun.”
Archaeologists presented the results of a study of the burial of crocodiles discovered in 2019 in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa.
Researchers discovered in the tomb the remains of ten Nile and West African crocodiles, one of which has survived to this day in the form of an almost complete mummy.
Previously, we talked about how to wash your dog's paws.
