[It's a simple initial answer as he gives her an apron and uses something like a jack to part the long slit in Emily-Helen's side.]
The Ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife which reflected their landscape. In order to interact with it, the parts of the soul had to be able to reunite with their body in order to experience their new plane of existence. For that reason, the body had to be properly honoured and preserved before interred.
[He indicates the jars with a sigh.]
Ordinarily it would take forty days to soak them in natron--salt--but we don't have that kind of resource and I very much doubt we have that kind of time. It's more a matter of necessity of waiting for desiccation, anyway, and I'm not subject to that constraint.
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[It's a simple initial answer as he gives her an apron and uses something like a jack to part the long slit in Emily-Helen's side.]
The Ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife which reflected their landscape. In order to interact with it, the parts of the soul had to be able to reunite with their body in order to experience their new plane of existence. For that reason, the body had to be properly honoured and preserved before interred.
[He indicates the jars with a sigh.]
Ordinarily it would take forty days to soak them in natron--salt--but we don't have that kind of resource and I very much doubt we have that kind of time. It's more a matter of necessity of waiting for desiccation, anyway, and I'm not subject to that constraint.