The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74060   Message #1309896
Posted By: GUEST,open mike's secret santa's santee
28-Oct-04 - 04:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
translated form spanish to english:
"Egyptian what the old ones surrounded to his momias inside?"
something about mummies?
something about what they were wrapped in?
or what they had inside?
anointed with?
linen? natron?
hey--i have been to the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose'
and there are several mummies there...and sarcophagusses
or is is sarcophogi?
and the most interesting thing..there are teeny tiny
glass jars or bottles made to hold the tears of the
mourners...no instructions of how to get thte tears in there...
that then would be buried with the dead, i believe...
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy/
the klprocess of mummification takes 70 days
so there is not time before christmas to do that..
so i guess that is not my present...to become a mummy..
or a mommy as that takes 9 months...
i am fascinated withi dung beetles...or scarabs...
but prefer to keep my brains in my head,
not having them removed with crochet hooks
as mummies do...yech!@
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/mummy/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/9906/mummies/

or perhaps you were trying to say that we should all
listen to Mumia? http://www.mumia.org/freedom.now/
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL a renowned journalist from Philadelphia
who has been on death row since 1981 for allegedly shooting Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner....