Question

In mystery festivals during Khoiak, this practice was done on a mixture of silt and germinated grains. This practice was performed in a room called the Beautiful House and involved a green mask symbolizing the Fields of Reeds. (10[1])As part of this practice, a person covered in natron and perfume (10[1])had their sense-detecting (10[1])body parts tapped with a rod; (10[5])that Opening of the Mouth (10[1])ritual in this practice allowed the ka and ba to return. The heads of Hapi and three other of Horus’s sons appeared on canopic jars used in this practice, (10[1])which removed the brain (10[1])with a hook. For 10 points, priests of Anubis oversaw what practice in which souls (10[1])were prepared for the Egyptian afterlife by wrapping their bodies? ■END■

ANSWER: mummification [accept word forms such as making a mummy; accept Egyptian mummification; prompt on embalming or preservation; prompt on descriptive answers such as wrapping a body or postmortem modification; prompt on organ removal or taking out organs; prompt on preparing for the afterlife; prompt on burials or funeral rites]
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