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OsirisEl222
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The Black Dog Of Egipt , Is The Reason Why You Wear Black To Funerals ?
Did you know that the Anubis Jackal , the black dog of Egipt , is the reason why people waer black to funerals ? The black jackal dog has always been a symbol assciated with Egipt . It also represents the Neter ( deity ) Anubu ( Anubis ) . Who is called the Neter of the Dead . Anubu ( Anubis ) was also considered the inventor of Embalming . the guardian of tomba , and a judge of the dead . When the Soul was being judged . his heart was weighed on a scale against the feather of Ma'at ..Neter Anubu .. Neter Ma'at ... Netert Ammit ,Which would determine if the Soul would continue its journey or be prey for Ammit the serpent , Also known as Apopis and Apep from these symbols of Egipt . The western world associates black , witch craft , black magic and black dog with death . For Instance If A Person Hears A Dog Howling , It Is SaidTo Be An Omen That Some Will Die Soon . When A Person Dies Everyone Goes To The Funeral Wearing Black , As A Sign Of Mourning . When customs on burial were made , they stolepart from Egiptian funeral ceremonies , and made it their own . They change the symbols and the original meaning . In doing this they are constantly taking away the whole essence of the rituals and giving it back to you water down . So when you see the origins of your culture , you can't even appreciate it , because you have been given something with no meaning , or it was given to you with a negative phiosophy . What you are being shown you can not even identify with . So Black is LQQK At As Bad And The Jackal Is LQQked At As Something Evil . When Neither Is Negative , < Black Is A State Of Supreme Balancement , You Exist Longer In Dark Than Light , If Light Is Life You Only Live Your Physical Life With Human And Animals From 1 - 100 Years Or Up 120 The Most . But In Darkness Or Death You Are With God And The Angel ForEver . So Light Is Temporally And Darkness Is Eternal . Light Is With Man And Darkness Is With God, ! > Think About It . Before You Were Born , You Were In This State . And When You DieYou Will Return To That State Of Supreme Balancement . ( When Man Invented Light He Created Chaos . Murder And All Evil That Brought The Light Into Existence . ) < Blackness Is An Abode Of Peace , It Is The Light That You Cut Off When You're Ready To Sleep , To Bring Upon Peace , I Think You've Been Fooled By Racism . The Jackal Just Happen To Be The Animal Symbol Used By The Neter ( Deity ) Anubu ( Anubia ) .
Most People Might Ask Are JackalsReally Blacks? Answer ; No ! there is no such specie as a black jackal . , the real reason why the black jackal is depicted as black , can not be revealed to those who is found not worthy . But little is a revealed and can be told, it is symbolic of '' The nine black knights . But there is a species of jackals called the black - backed jackal which originated in Senegal to Somalia , south to Namibia and eastern South Africa . Jackal isthe name applied to several carivorous mammals . in the genus Canis , dog family . They inhabit brush county . Deserts , and grasslands . Jackals are about 90 cm ( 3ft ) long , including thebushy 35 - cm ( 14in) tail , and weigh about 10 . 8 kg ( 24lb ) . They have erect ears , fairly long legs , anda slinking gait , but the black jackal dog does not exist . <Why Is It Once A Person Passes Away It Is LQQked At As Something Depressing Or As Such A Tragedy ? Formost , It Is Because It Is Something Unknown . If You Join God When You Die , Why Do You As A Religous Person Try To Stay Alive So Bad , If You Already Gave Yourself To God , You Should Be Happy To Die , Right ! Other Cultures Don't View Death As Something Bad But Accept It As Something That Is A Natural Part Of The Cycle Of Life To Be Celebrated , As The Soul Moves On To The Next Realm . This Is Also A Practice In Louisiana . One A Person Is Buried A Celebration Is Held With Danceing And Eating , It Is LQQked At As A Very Joyous Event And Not One Of Sorrow . The Native Americans, In Fact , Did A Dance That Resulted In The Massacre At Wounded Knee , Which Was Also Borrowed From The Egiptian Dance Of The Dead , Of The Muu Tribe .
Embalming Process ... Once the embalming process was complete , sometime taking as long as 70 days , The Sem or Egiptian Priest would lead the procession of the deceassed family and how they will miss their loved ones , not for the fact that he or she will join the deities in the heavens . The Professional Mourners who were people who would follow the procession , crying for the deceased until they reached the tomb . In case of a pharaoh , or wealthy person , the family made sure they were given the most elaborate ceremony possible. . Once The Sarcophagus was in place , the tomb was sealed . Seated outside the tomb would be the Muu dancer who would perform the dance of the dead also called the Dance Of The People Of Pe . from the lower Egipt . Don't you see the whole process surrounding the burial of a deceased person including the wake is nothing but a duplcate of Egiptian rituals . The wake is where the members of the family and concerned friends have one final viewing of their loved one , by wake I mean wake is , to wakeup - resurrect get up before they are returned to Ta = earth from which they came . In Egipt , the wake or last viewing of thebody is the sarcophagus , which has a life - like face of the person at their best to be always remembered . In the western world , the body is filled with formaldehyde to preserve it until the burial , also copied form the Egiptian method of embalming . Then there is a procession to the tomb . from the funeral home or parlor . home , which is a line of cars driving through the cities with banners and flowers. They also honk their horns. and turn on their headlights forall on LQQking to see on them on their way to the cemetery or graveyard . In Egipt . there was a procession taking the mummy to the tomb . The casket or coffin which is a decorative box , a sarcophagus , is then lowered into theground . an earthly tomb ; likewise in Egipt . the mummy is sealed inside the tomb
Western World Dance Of Death , Sounds Familiar ... <<< This Definitely Sounds Familiar , It Was Taken From The Egiptians' Culture !

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Great post,Osiris El. Much of those funerary traditions continue to exist within rural Egyptian soceity. Just as mouners existed in antiquity they also do today. You will also see the 40 day ritual where at the end families leave offerings for the deceased. So many things survive from antiquity amungst modern rural Egyptians.


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Often burial rituals are overlooked when dealing with history. The burial tradition, although practices involved may not be the same everywhere, has long been with humans. The fact that it predates religion has implications. It is an indication that humans have always believed that there was some kind of after life, just as AE believed. Of course the AE, had taken the burial process to new heights, when the started putting artifacts and other personal belongings in caskets of the deceased. But now Osiris El, you asked why people based on their beliefs of after life, not rejoice about the prospect of death or when their loved once die. Well the simple answer to this would be 'emotions'. For some it is the idea of going through the rest of your life without this person so close to you. Another reason is the widely held religious belief that there are two places to go; heaven or hell. So the uncertainty of what will happen to one if he/she dies also creats the discomfort towards death. But death being part of life, we as humans cannot escape from it. Now I know I am kind of venturing away from the topic, but don't you think that perhaps the real reason most people don't rejoice at the prospect of their dead loved ones, or even dance or celebrate it as the AE did, is that subconsciously they are afraid of the possibility that this might be 'it' or the 'end'. In other words, death could spell out the absolute end of life, and there is no hereafter. For a lot people, this is a hard pill to swallow. The idea that you've lived your live, accomplished so much in life, the pains in life, the joys and so forth, all end upto nothing but death, and nothing happens after death, except one's remains as skeleton! That is why it easier to believe in the life after death as our ancestors have done. We've seeked to find meaning to death, and that explains the AE burial process. Who really knows what happens after death, not even scientists can figure this out! This uncertainty makes it an uncomfortable point in life. That explains why people prefer to be sad, as opposed to being joyful that one is dead and he/she is with their God.
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What made the AE pratice unique was the opening of the mouth ritual. This is where many of the priests took an adze and placed it over the head to release the ka of the deceased. The Kemetians believed in the concept of a Ka,Ba,Ren,Khat. Your Ka was the only thing departed from you while the ba remained within the body only coming out during the day time whtin the tomb.

People going as far back as Neanderthal times buried their loved ones with flowers. The fact that traces of flower pollen on a Neanderthal found in Iraq says this much. The Kkhoisan people in southern Africa also have a process of funerary rituals. Khoisan are amungst the first human beings to walk this planet. Some khoisan actually had a mummification process. Let me remind people that many of these concepts are unversal amung cultural spectrums.



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original quote by osirisel222:
But In Darkness Or Death You Are With God And The Angel ForEver . So Light Is Temporally And Darkness Is Eternal . Light Is With Man And Darkness Is With God, ! > Think About It . Before You Were Born , You Were In This State . And When You DieYou Will Return To That State Of Supreme Balancement .
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Embalming Process ... Once the embalming process was complete , sometime taking as long as 70 days , The Sem or Egiptian Priest would lead the procession of the deceassed family and how they will miss their loved ones , not for the fact that he or she will join the deities in the heavens . The Professional Mourners who were people who would follow the procession , crying for the deceased until they reached the tomb . In case of a pharaoh , or wealthy person , the family made sure they were given the most elaborate ceremony possible. . Once The Sarcophagus was in place , the tomb was sealed . Seated outside the tomb would be the Muu dancer who would perform the dance of the dead also called the Dance Of The People Of Pe .


Can you clarify what you are trying to say here. The first half of your comment seems to be stating that nowadays, in most cultures death is seen as depressing, but that wasn't the case with AE. You seem to have drawn a connection between 'black' and death. You say that today most look at 'black' as negative, while the AE connected it with one being closer to God, because that color is devoid of light. This light, according to your earlier comment, makes it easier for men do evil, because it enables them to see. Whereas in the dark, it is less so, because vision is limited. So your point seems to be that AE saw 'black' as a very positive thing and that is the reason for the 'black' representation of the Jackals preparing the body for burial. On the other hand, you seem to claim that the idea of connecting 'black' with death was borrowed from AE custom, but since other cultures (particularly the West) don't quite understand the context in which the 'black' was used originally in AE burial, they have a distorted view of the black Jackals. So, your conclusion appears to be that, because people in the west have come to see death as 'depressing' and the fact the they wear black at the funerals, they have come to associate 'black' with negativity. As result, they wrongly view the AE black Jackals associated with death, as negative. Is this really what you are saying?

If I understand it correctly, the other half of your comment which I presented as the second quote, you stated that the relatives of the deceased cried in the context that they will miss the dead one. This contradicts what you said earlier about death being viewed as a positive thing that needed to be celebrated, instead of mourned.

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quote:
Originally posted by ausar:
Great post,Osiris El. Much of those funerary traditions continue to exist within rural Egyptian soceity. Just as mouners existed in antiquity they also do today. You will also see the 40 day ritual where at the end families leave offerings for the deceased. So many things survive from antiquity amungst modern rural Egyptians.

Ausar- Akhay - Atha - Antut = How Are You
Tawuh - Antut - Jed - Katur = Than You Very Much .
Hotep - Ala Antut = Peace Be Unto You
Egiptian Language I'm Trying To Learn



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