Celtic and ancient Egyptian
funeral rites
Introduction
The Celts
and the Egyptians where two very different civilizations, they lived in different
areas, they had funeral rites but do they have more similarities of
differences?
Similarities
These two
civilizations were very different, but they also had similarities like that in
both civilizations the place after death was always a better place like in the
land of 2 fields it said it was a better place to live and the Celts said that
the other world was also better. In the Egyptian culture when the body was
being buried they put objects with them that could be of use after death, Egyptians
buried daily items like jewellery hair combs. The Celts also buried things of daily
use like one site said with a buried person they buried items that were used by
doctors so he was a doctor and in other sometimes swords, clothes, but they
most of all buried jewellery with people.
Also at the time of their religion it was very strong so what happened
in the afterlife was believed by almost everyone
Differences
These
civilizations had lots of differences in their funeral rites, one is that since
the Celts lived for so long, their burial rites changed like one of them they
burned the body another they put them in urns and the last one is that they
buried the whole body, but the Egyptians had three different ways they were
being mummified or dried out which was completely different. In mummification
there were two things the wrapping and the embalming and as I said before the
Celts did not have that but something different, the Celts, when someone died, they
sacrificed humans or animals to appease the gods. When the body was buried it
was also different when Egyptians buried in tombs, mastabas and in the sand the
Celts made crains, barrows and platform graves to bury the body.
People
went to different places when the Egyptians went to the land to two fields the
Celtics went to the otherworld. Also, they were tasked to go two the land of
two fields but the Celts thought that everyone went to the other world.
Like many
civilizations the Egyptians believed that the body split from the soul but the
Celts thought that the body and the soul went together to the other world, they
also believed that the druids would take them to the afterlife, but the
Egyptians believed the god Ra would take you by boat, but then the Egyptians
had to weigh their hearts with maat and have two other things to be done. Their
name was written down and their body preserved the Celts believed that
everybody went to the other world.
Conclusion
Despite the
similarities, these civilizations where very different and had only some things
in common. Researching the Celts was very hard to me because there wasn’t a lot
of information on their burial rites but when I did they were very different
they also lived in very different area on in Europe and one in Egypt these
civilizations even though that they were very powerful civilizations that lived
a long time. These civilizations are very interesting and also had a very
strong religion and I think they lived long because of that.
Glossary
Urns: A vase for holding the ashes of the cremated dead
Druids: a member of a pre-Christian religious order among the ancient Celts ofGaul, Britain, and Ireland.
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