This is my last paint job:
Opening of the mouth ceremony.
In ancient Egypt the death was considered a transition phase in which the human being passed to a new state of existence in the afterlife. Therefore it was necessary to help the deceased to resurrect in the world of the dead. The entrance of the dead in the afterlife depended not only on the fact that he had acted properly in his lifetime and that, in the weighing of the soul, or psicostasia, the court of Osiris he had considered worthy to enter the world of the dead. It was necessary, in fact, that even the physical of the deceased was in excellent condition. He had to be capable of moving by themselves in the '' lower world '', for which the ends were to be revived. Similarly he had to eat, drink, talk and have sex. The opening ceremony of the mouth consisted of a set of rituals performed on the mummy or a statue of the deceased and faces before resuming its vital functions. During its development, the dead regained even the view. For the Egyptians (as well as in other cultures) '' see '' it was synonymous with '' live ''. The view is one of the principal means available to the human being to perceive things and the knowledge of what was around it was to be alive. Therefore, the full name of the ritual was '' opening ceremony of the mouth and eyes ''. After the funeral procession arrived at the cemetery, the ritual was performed by priests and according to representations, we know that it happened in front of the tomb of the deceased.
