RELS 3333- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 101 pages long!)

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 3333
• Professor: Jacqueline Ho

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Rels 3333 lecture 1 notes egyptian religion: trade for funeral industry, salt to mummify people, bitumen or carbon, wood (cedar, to(cid:449)(cid:374)s de(cid:448)oted to (cid:271)uildi(cid:374)g the pha(cid:396)aoh"s tombs, amass resources to buy a tomb and funerary objects. The word (cid:862)mummy(cid:863) (cid:862)mu(cid:373)(cid:373)y(cid:863) (cid:272)o(cid:373)es f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the (cid:449)o(cid:396)d (cid:862)(cid:373)u(cid:373)(cid:373)iya(cid:863), a (cid:272)a(cid:396)(cid:271)o(cid:374)-based substance (bitumen) used for embalming bodies. The purpose of preserving bodies: the body was needed for the soul"s t(cid:396)a(cid:374)sitio(cid:374) to the afterlife. I(cid:374) o(cid:396)de(cid:396) fo(cid:396) the soul"s t(cid:396)a(cid:374)sitio(cid:374) to (cid:271)e su(cid:272)(cid:272)essful, a(cid:374) intact and preserved body was needed. It was believed that pharaohs descended from the gods. Imminent threat to death: dealing with fear involved, avoiding it, confronting it, appeasing it, conquering it, zoolatry: worship of animal forms, honoured the power of animals, appease it/placate it, drawing good powers from animals, e. g. through permission. Jackal anubis (god of embalming and mummification) full animal form (earlier) . Anubis half-human form (later: anthropomorphism: gi(cid:448)i(cid:374)g hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:395)ualities to so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that is(cid:374)"t hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)