What color shade is named after Saint Patrick? Detailed answer

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What color shade is named after Saint Patrick?

In popular culture, Ireland is primarily associated with the color green. However, on the Irish coat of arms, the harp is on a blue background, which is officially referred to as "St. Patrick's blue". The same name is used to describe the uniforms of Irish sports teams, the berets of the British Army units in Northern Ireland, the academic dress code of the Irish National University and many other elements.

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How did the Egyptians learn to preserve mummies?

A mummy, as you know, is a dead body that has been preserved. The word "mummy" is of Arabic origin and means "a body preserved in wax or resin". Why did the Egyptians want to preserve the body of the deceased?

The reason is that they believed in life after death and therefore wanted to prepare for it. They believed that the soul of a dead person, which they imagined as a bird with a human face, could fly freely during the day, but at night, due to the machinations of evil spirits, had to return to the grave. Therefore, the body was preserved so that the soul, recognizing it, could find the right grave from it.

Until about 3000 B.C. e. The Egyptians buried their dead in the hot sand of the desert, and this sand preserved the bodies. Later, stone graves were carved for important persons. But the pyramids and stone graves were not as dry as the desert sand. Therefore, it was necessary to come up with some way to preserve the bodies in the graves. This was the origin of the art of embalming.

From the body of a deceased person, the brain, digestive organs and lungs were removed. They were stored separately in four vessels, the so-called "canopic". In later times, after processing, they were again placed in the body.

Then the body was treated with salts, which, together with the dry desert air, absorbed moisture. The dehydrated body was washed, rubbed with pine resin and wrapped in hundreds of meters of canvas. All this took 70 days.

During this time, carpenters made a case for the mummy. If the deceased was a rich and important person, they made a whole set of cases, each of which was skillfully inserted into the next. The artists painted the cases with bright colors. The walls of the grave were decorated with drawings and texts telling the life story of this person. All the things that he liked to use were placed in the grave.

The Egyptians believed that by performing this whole ritual, they prepared a person for his future life.

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