Sentences with word «natron»

A poor man would be dispatched to the afterlife after a perfunctory mummification, either rubbed in oils or briefly covered with natron — a naturally occurring baking soda - and - salt compound — or tree resin from conifers.

As a final touch, 29 linen - wrapped packets of natron were tucked inside the body.

According to ancient texts, the body was supposed to be kept under natron for 35 days, and then kept around, exposed, for another 35 — perhaps for a period of mourning or other religious rituals.

It is a component of the mineral natron and is found dissolved in many mineral springs.

They, too, were covered with natron.

I'd forgotten the black mud under water, but the natron stench returns, and nearly refreshes!

The patient's hard, black tongue is scarified and treated with a mixture of chile powder, natron, and soot.

Now Wade and Brier placed the body on a wooden platform covered with natron and heaped more natron upon it.

«The natron was wet,» Wade remembers.

Just as salts will preserve and dry meats, the natron — 580 pounds of it — would draw out the body's moisture and render the dried flesh impervious to bacteria.

Now it was time to remove the natron packets through the initial cut.

Pictures and a script is included for the teacher to read which instructs the children on how to embalm the body (with herbs), preserve it with natron (salt) etc..