The various funeral rites

Many end their existence buried, or cremated embalsamados, with tears, a party or their ashes scattered in space. The funeral customs reflect our interpretation of life and death. Here, we offer the different rites of this area.

Man is the only creature that buries its dead, and in all societies have existed beliefs about souls, spirits and life after death, so the rites farewell present very different forms throughout the world and across all times.

Funeral rites can be grouped into two classes, according to the sense that each community gives to death. On the one hand, there are companies who believe that the body loses an essential part of the person, for another, convinced that the soul is earlier than our life in this world and survives bodily death.

In the first, to be mummified corpses and filled the graves of personal belongings, food and offerings to anticipate the resurrection in the future and help the soul on its journey to another life: Jews, Vikings, Jews, Arabs, Christians and However, Egyptians did it. Those who believe in reincarnation of the soul, as Hindus and Buddhists, preferring other approaches, such as cremation.

The first known tombs dating from the Stone Age, around the year 3000 BC. In them, the corpses are lying to one side and shrinkage, and along with them there is food, tools and ornaments. As far back as ancient Mesopotamia is believed that those who were buried could cause bad misfortune. The Cretans registered addresses for another life in the graves of their dead, and Greeks and Romans provided them with money to the gods and even cakes for cancerbero, the watchdog of the gates of beyond.

But those who carried farther worship funeral were Egyptians. At the time of the pharaohs, keep the body was thought necessary to access another life, and for this purpose and noble kings did preserve his remains and equipment luxuriously their graves waiting for the day of his resurrection. Once dead, their viscera were kept in so-called "glasses CANopen" (equivalent to the relics of saints among Christians and Arabs), embalming the rest with special compounds, some funerals are held dances that could include mortuary and athletic competitions, is deposited the bodies in developed niches and wooden and stone sarcophagi, and pyramids were built luxuriously ornadas and inaccessible to the living to accommodate them.

Egyptian Soap

In the entire world the mystic beauty of the queens of Egitpo is known. In general, all the Egyptian women had your own secrets to always be radiant. You desmaquillaban with milk, used moisturizers with the help of milk and honey, and they supplemented the bathrooms with massages, carried out based on aromatic essences.

To put on makeup, they used the "khol", one of the contributions of the Egyptian culture to the cosmetic one. Also, they traced on the edge of your eyes, a black línes with form of swallow queue, using a cpsmético called "mesdemet."

The myrrh tree, the mint, the frankincense tree and the saffron, they were others of the substances used for the elaboration of your cosmetics.

You are known that Cleopatra, was been worth of odorants, ointments and flagrant soaps to be won the heart of powerful men. Based on an Egyptian old prescription, being guided by the utilized materials from the antiquity to carry out soaps of beauty, we will tell you how to create these fantastic soaps to see your much more beautiful skin.

Materials:
soap coconut base
a mold to your election
ethyl alcohol
cotton
vegetable red dye for soaps
essence of rosas and of menta3 threads of saffron

Procedure:
You take the soap coconut base and, with a very taper knife, cut it in pieces. You arrange the pieces in a metal vessel and put it to the fire, to melt to bathroom maría. You retract of the fire when they are already dissolved and you add the less other ingredients the alcohol. You revolve well with a wooden tablespoon until you are a homogeneous mixture. Clean the mold with a cotton absorbed in alcohol and later, you pour the mixture. You allow to solidify, desmolda smoothly and you wrap the soap in polyethylene film.

The Crosses

The Egyptian cross
The Egyptian cross or ANKH, consist on a cross tau crowned by a circle. This cross is frequently in the monuments and in the Goddess's representations Sekhet and you consider it to him the "Key of the Life."

You were also named by the Egyptians "the Key of Nile", because you were believed that you were about a magic key that he/she opened the magic gate toward the immortality.

Regarding your form, the circle higher of the same one you represent the woman, and the straight line represents the man. The circle also represents the Divinity, the font of general purpose energy that, with your encouragement, you endow from life and movement to the earthly thing symbolized by the horizontal line. The part that are under the circle has the form of the letter "T" upper case and represent you I want of returning in absolute form to the Spiritual Father's breast.

This cross and indicated to protect the couple against bad spirits and illness. In and of itself, you the debit side to hang up in the room of the sick persons and people with infertility problems. Otherwise, you the debit side to recline on the person's head to cure and to pray. This way he/she will help to heal your wrongs.

The cross of malt
The cross of malt or of the good fortunes, you are not only loaded with the earthly and human power, but rather the eight points of the same one represent the refresh operation, or those named "eight virtues."

This cross was adopted as the emblem of the gentlemans of the Command of the Temper, and your form of four arrow tips pointing to the center, they transform it into a meditation cross, since tipifica the forces and the movement directed toward the interior.

In the antiquity it also represented to the four Assyrian big gods: Anu, Bel or Belo, Ra and Hea.

In and of itself the cross of malt is suitable to protect of the bad companies, of the temptations and of the frivolous elections that drive for the wrong road.

You have always sought advice to take it hung up as I said and to use it as you send it to pray and to meditate. Not also forget that this cross grants anger.

Cruz of Caravaca
This cross is symbol of entirety and of center of the world, but also, to her they are allocated many and big mysteries. Or history dates of a very remote Spanish tradition.

Among the years 1241 and 1246, your devotion arose in a convent of Caravaca, county of Murcia, when two angels brought this cross so that a priest could celebrate the Sacrament in appearance of the Muslims that had it prisoner. After the unification of Spain and the discovery of new lands, Santa Cruz of Caravaca continued being sign of the faith and obradora of miracles inspiring the advance of the Gospel and of the commands you would temper.

All told this, is that this cross is suitable for difficult cases, emergencies, for the prevention of persecutions; as well as you stop psychic attacks and physiques. You are good to hang up it as standard in the entry of the house, balconies, windows or inside the car.

The Celtic cross
This cross was used by the Celtic Christian in the areas of Great Britain and Ireland like symbol of great power, since you come from the fusion of the Christian cross and the pagan circle of the sun that it are represented by the circle. You are then, of a cross in the one that aesthetically the one aligned are conjugated, which attract the stability, and the circle, the one that remit the solar masculine energy that are generating.

For these reasons it is that this cross is indicated so that you protect your possessor in your work and in the tasks that it continue.

You are about a combat cross and you conquer in any environment, and that also, as talisman, it can take it hung up in the neck, or to save it under the pillow or to hang up it in the gate of the house or work.

Who made the Sphinx of Gizah

For many years, observing the Sphinx of Gizeh, he/she saw something of their aspect, something indefinable that gave me curiosity: that age had...
Does reason have the appearance of being considerably older that the monuments that there is around in its?
Then I had the opportunity to carry out a trip to Egypt and obviously I visited the plateau of Gizah, and there I had the same sensation on the sphinx: that the Sphinx is as made apart from the temples and pyramids.
It was eliminated the idea that Kefren has made the Sphinx, he only exhumed it, it restored it and it ordered to carve its factions in the face, and during 3000 years it served, all thought that the manufacturer had been him.
What does it bother me in the Sphinx?
Is reason when comparing it with the Pyramids something that tells me that they are not part of the same thing?

The waste that shows in their face:
Have not they seen the deep waste marks that they appear in those places where one can see the original structure?
And not any waste, sand, wind ...no, dilutes, much but a great quantity of water, and not for consequence of floods, the waste profiles say to be big rains, for several centuries.
And when it rained so much in that place of Egypt? that can know it: until the end of the last time glacier, by the middle of the 10.500 AC, then the north of Africa became deserted.

Almost forced deduction:
-the Sphinx was built before the year 10.000 AC.
-no they should have made it the Egyptians according to those data.

Today in day it is said that the first civilizations on the Earth 4 that made it approximately at the same time in the 5000 AC, were they were: the China, that of Mohenjo Daro, Summer and Egypt.
A lot before all them, anything less than 5000 years before, something or somebody built the Sphinx.