I thought, I would talk a little bit about how I became fascinated by ancient Egypt.
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Yes once the screen was black and white, personally I have always thought that they were more beautiful in black and white 🙂
I clearly remember getting absolutely spooked by a mummy coming up of a swamp, this was one of the bases for a mummy movie some 70 years back.
When it comes to movies surrounding mummies, it was and is, always some curse like theme.
This kind of movie is usually based on some archaeological proven facts, but they also mix a lot of fiction into it, I do stress, a lot.
The Mummy 1932
It is 1921, and an expedition to Egypt discovers the mummy of priest Imhotep. One of the expeditions assistants reads from an ancient scroll and Imhotep is given life.
This movie has the plot stretched over years, while Imhotep adapt to the surrounding world, as he is looking for his long lost soul mate Ankh-es–en–amon.
It is 1900 and a British Egyptologists team finds the tomb of Ra and his mummy, the team bring their discovery back to London, in the hopes of having a luxurious exhibition.
On the eve of the exhibition while everyone is anticipating what they are going to see, they open the sarcophagus of Ra, but it is empty…
Suddenly people at the museum starts to die, and no one knows it secret…
The Mummy, Hosted by Christopher Lee 1/4
If I am not mistaken, then it was this one that I watched as a very young child, I was around 10 maybe even younger. And no my parents did not know, or they would have switched it off.
When I look at them today, it’s like watching the old rubber Godzilla, no point intended.
It is interesting how demanding even our eyes get, we are attuned to small things through time.
I must admit that I have no problems in watching the good old black and white movies.
The Mummy was released in 1959 written by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Michael Carreras and a Mr. Anthony Nelson Keys in England.
It seems to have been part of a series, or should I say they followed the theme of some other mummy movies from 20 years earlier.
Now I can see that there are some funny points in this movie, and looses a lot of credibility in today’s world.
In this movie we have a archaeologist team searching for the tomb of a high priestess of the god Karnak (?) This made me smile.
Or maybe someone meant to say “Priestess at Karnak” Or something like that. For surely there has never been a god named Karnak…
Amazing Stories, Series 1 Episode 4, Mummy Daddy
Is there a Curse?
If we look at ancient Egyptian manuscript, then there indeed was a curse placed upon what was holy, and surely the mummy was a priority of any tomb.
Actually there are also scriptures on the tomb wall, which if people could read them, would probably make them more humble, if not scared…
The mummy was essential in ancient Egyptian spiritual belief, as it was the chamber/vessel of the soul. They called the soul Ba, actually it is not really the soul, I have a article post about that What a human consist off
The care and attention to the body after death, seems obscure to our modern day world. It is not really obscure, but rather beautiful if you look at it in a different manner.
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