Saturday, October 20, 2018

Mummies, a DIY Guide

In the beginning, they put the mummies inside small pyramids, but these started to look lame so they made bigger ones. All that glam called for looting, so mummies got hidden in desert valleys where hundreds of workers somehow kept the locations secret. Nowadays, any good desert location should work your DIY mummy.
The desert can be harsh, so ensure you have good transportation, like this Advanced Vehicle System.
Inside the tomb, you need some instructions for the gods. These involve a) pictures of many offerings, b) a secret code for the afterlife, c) pictures of the required afterlife servants and d) the occasional Roman or modern grafiti.
Then, you need an inner and outer sarcophagus, ideally with inlay artistic detail. This takes some time, so get carving. These should be embedded, in several golden coffins, Russian-doll style, not shown.
Now you gotta get some afterlife furniture. Here is a camping chair for roasting marshmallows in the bonfires of hell. The furniture was strewn about suprisingly messily in the tombs. Not like the careful human packaging.
These tubular vesicles seem important, but I can't remember what they help with in the afterlife, so keep these on hand.
Now, mummification. First, you suck the organs, ideally out of the nose, and put them into this intriguing organ box. Set aside. This part might be messy, so take precautions.
Next, you have to do a lot of not-well-understood embalming things with special kinds of oils. Wait 40 days, and consult with your local taxidermist if necessary. Now, wrap the body up, put all those sarcophagi together, and you're done!
We found that these essential oils still play a role in modern Egypt, where they're used for perfumes, and potentially modern mummification.
There were also offerings to the gods.
Here's Barry, learning how to make an offering goblet, and somehow the man behind him looks plastic, maybe because of the oils.
Optional add-on: afterlife pets!
There were a lot of animals in modern Egypt as well. We fed this one our lunch leftovers.
Barry is clearly a city boy.