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Where do you get all this crap? And are you sure you know how to use it? Or will you be left with one rat condemned to freakish eternity as the conversation piece labeled, "Oh, he was my first try"?
Sounds like it'd be easier, cheaper and only just as disgusting to save all their poop and make fetid fecal sculptures of your dead rats. No, I wouldn't want to read about that, either.
Posted by J. at February 26, 2004 03:17 AM
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I doubt the shit sculptures would sell nearly as well on eBay.
Natron = baking soda + salt. Simple enough. The canopic jars, sarcophagi, etc. I would make. Myrrh is for sale in every hippie shop from here to San Francisco. Egyptian linen's for sale in two fabric stores within walking distance. And I've got a fairly decent translation of the Book of the Dead as an ebook.
The only thing I'm having real trouble with is the palm wine. Apparently, no one bottles the stuff. But I'll substitute something if I have to.
And yes, I understand the process of mummification in theory, although I don't think I'd let anyone chuck rocks at me during the disemboweling.
Ancient Egyptians had a bad habit of mummifying everything they could get their hands on, including rats. Lions, bulls, ibises, crocodiles. You get the idea. Granted, that's still pretty goddamn weird, but at least there's precident.
If I mummify the rats, I get a project, that, at worst, ends in a conversation piece. If I don't, I tie them up in a plastic sack after they expire and toss them down the ten-story trash chute. That's not really any less fucked up.
Posted by spike at February 26, 2004 04:03 AM
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"And I've got a fairly decent translation of the Book of the Dead as an ebook."
For some reason I find that extremely funny.
Anyway, mummify away baby. Myself, I'd love to give my rat a Viking funeral.
Posted by Lisa Jonte at February 26, 2004 08:59 AM
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i did that to my mouse when he died. if only i could have found little jewels to decorate him with. and those organ jars were all too big. but i did build him a tomb to go in and i'm hoping someone will find it in 100 years and be very confused.
Posted by meredith at February 26, 2004 09:42 AM
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meredith, you are okay by me.
And there's something else to think about; the jewels for their adornments. Fortunately, lapis ain't as expensive and valuable as it used to be.
Posted by spike at February 26, 2004 12:43 PM
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For some reason, this sounds like a throwaway line from a Warren Ellis piece.
"Sitting on the mantlepiece were a pair of rats that she had mummified using full Egyptian rituals gleaned from a pirate ebook translation of the Book of the Dead. I swore that I was never going to let her near my cat."
I say go for it.
Posted by Wagner at February 26, 2004 01:45 PM
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Dude, you'd be honouring them. It's also somewhat saner then pet cemeteries in that you would be doing it out of kooky love for your pets, but you'ld also be doing it for outside interests.
On a neat note, my junior high school music teacher's family used to be Canada's premier texidermists before it went out of style. He showed us an unfinished wolf pelt. Kooky stuff.
I saw Mummify one, Taxiderm the other.
Posted by Andre' at February 26, 2004 03:38 PM
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Oh, I see how you are. This isn't about preserving them for your benefit, this is to make them into collectable figurines.
Posted by J. at February 26, 2004 05:44 PM
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No, you clearly don't.
Way to miss the joke, Cap'n.
Posted by spike at February 26, 2004 06:15 PM
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Nothing to add, but "Do it! Do it, and meticulously photograph the entire process."
Posted by Rich at February 26, 2004 06:26 PM
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Heh. Bob Brier (official unofficial crazy uncle to the Egyptology community) actually mummified some dude who donated his body to science. There's a video of it out there, somewhere; you won't see it on Discovery or TLC, unless they suddenly decided it was okay for TV. He does the full deal -- removal of viscera, keeping the body packed in natron, canopic jars, prayers from the BotD.
Which translation do you have?
As for mummifying pets: Cool! But you're reminding me of an old Daily Show sketch, and specifically that guy Skippy Ra out in Utah.
Okay, I will stop invading your weblog with babbling about Egypt, now.
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