Opening the mouth
How can the soul forget something it tasted?
The other world is neither alien to us nor completely unknown, for our souls know it
And she sees glimpses of him during her sleep because sleep is the lesser death.
Upon death, the soul moves to that world that it used to visit from time to time
in her dreams. And at the moment when the soul moves to the other world, our world appears to it
As if it is not real, and her worldly life appears to her like a dream.
Dreams are always faint, indistinct, easily eluded by spiritual memory.
Therefore, the soul needs someone to help it remember its worldly life, not like a faded dream.
But as a tangible reality that the soul experienced in this world.
And here comes the role of the priest of Ptah, who bears the title of “Smeti” (the expert priest of the world
The other) to perform the ritual of opening the mouth, that is, to restore to the soul the ability to remember its worldly life.
As a fact, not as a dream, the priest makes offerings to the soul in this ritual.
Everything beautiful man tasted in his life.
Here the priest uses the sense of taste to activate the memory of the soul and help it to
To relive all the events of her worldly life with full awareness and thus see her life meaning.
The sense of taste is the most powerful of the senses in activating memory, so it is enough to taste food.
You used to take it in your childhood so that you remember the pictures of your childhood events.
In every detail. And you may not need to eat the food itself, the smell of food alone.
You can do this task because the sense of smell is linked to the sense of taste.
And after death, the soul does not need to eat the food itself, so the presence of food accompanied by it is sufficient.
By praying the Eucharist in the form of “Hetepes de nesut”, so that the Eucharist plays its role in activating
Soul memory. And even if the family of the deceased neglected to offer sacrifices to his soul, the scenes.
The offerings depicted on the walls of his tomb play this role.
And the matter is not limited to food and drink only but also includes perfumes.
Every beautiful fragrance that passes our noses in our worldly life is stored in the spiritual memory.
Accompanied by the events, attitudes and feelings that accompanied him.
Therefore, the offering lists contained incense and perfume in the form of lotus flowers.
And aromatic oils and aromatic paint.
And taste in Egyptian philosophy does not stop at this point, but its broad concept extends to include:
Every art is beautiful, so the offering lists contained fine royal linen
“Market” is considered a wonderful work of art.
It also contains pieces of jewellery and jewellery. Because human hands forge every work of art
It has a taste that moves into our stomach, and the soul can never forget it.