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  1. 4. They use it to keep bad sprites out.
  2. 5. the Egyptian symbol for life
  3. 7. Capstone of a pyramid or the top of an obelisk. Sometimes called a benben stone or primordial mound The pyramidion was decorated and became a symbolic object that was the focal point of the small brick pyramids of private tombs.
  4. 9. FESTIVAL This is ritual meant to show royal regeneration. It was traditionally celebrated after 30 years of a king's reign. It is a scene usually found decorating the mortuary temples of the king.
  5. 10. TOMB Method of excavating tombs that begun during the Middle Kingdom. The burials in the Valley of the Kings are perhaps the best known Rock-cut tombs
  6. 11. According to the Osiris cults the Fields of Peace was the desired location of the deceased They would join with their god, Osiris and become a khu, drink, plow, reap, fight, make love, never be in a state of servitude and always be in a position of authority.
  7. 12. a dead body which has been preserved or dried out
  8. 13. TOMB An Arabic word that means "row", it describes the rock-cut tombs of the early 11th Dynasty that consisted of a row of openings on the hillside.
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  1. 1. TEXTS Texts on the walls of the pyramids of the end of the 5th through 8th Dynasties.
  2. 2. AMENTE This means "the mountain of the underworld," a common name for the cemeteries were in the mountains or desert on the western bank of the Nile.
  3. 3. OF THE MOUTH. . This ceremony was performed at the funeral to restore the senses of the deceased The ceremony was done by touching an adze to the mouth of a mummy or statue of the deceased it was believed to restore the senses in preparation for the afterlife.
  4. 4. a dead body
  5. 6. From the Greek word meaning; "flesh eater". It was the name given to the stone container within which the coffins and mummy were placed.
  6. 8. A symbol of authority