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First Day Of Shemu Essay

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Today marked the first day of Shemu, which is the first day of the season of the harvest. I didn’t want to wake up at sunrise this morning, but today was extremely special to us farmers. We no longer have to farm, but instead relax. We started to harvest our crops that we have grown for the past 5 months. The crops that my family and I have grown are melons, vegetables, flax, and figs. I harvested the flax first since I know that the priests will need to convert the flax into linens for their garments. Maybe I’ll even get to see the Pharaoh at the marketplace tomorrow! Actually, Pharaoh Thutmose III, isn’t very nice, so I think I’ll pass on wanting to see him. Speaking of Pharaoh Thutmose III, I’ve heard that he wants to kill all the Israelite …show more content…

That’s very unlikely, but a girl can dream. I wonder how it feels to live even after you die. Once you die, you are mummified. When you’re mummified, your body’s being preserved to be used in the next life. Since I’m part of one of the lower social classes, I won’t have a mummification that’s as good as one of a scribe or a priest. For all social classes, however, your organs are removed and places in sealed canopic jars, you are wrapped in bandages with amulets, and you’re placed in a sarcophagus. After they were buried in the ground with all of their possessions, the deceased would follow Anubis to a hall in the Underworld. Osiris, other deities, 42 judges, and Thoth were to judge you based on how heavy your heart was compared to a feather. If your heart weighed more than a feather, you would be eaten by Amit, a half-lion, half-hippopotamus. If your heart weighed less than a feather, you would be allowed to go to Iaru, or paradise. The only way you would be able to make it here is if your soul could make it out alive on a journey on the boat of Ra through a lake of fire, crocodiles, snakes, and Apophis, who was condemned to sink the boat of Ra. Wow, that’s a lot of information. The only reason I know all of this information is because I may have overheard a couple priests talk about the mummification process while they were all fighting over the flax

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