Extracting the Brain
As the slaves prepared for the surgery I put on my Anubis mask. My mask is the face of Anubis, the god of surgery. I am Priest Dunn and today I will be performing mummification for the great pharaoh Tutankhamen. I have done many mummifications before this, but I had never prepared a pharaoh. I am honoured.
The body has already been cut up several times, Many procedures have already been done. Today I am going to do the extracting of the brain. The first thing I need is the hook. My slave boy Kunan handed to me, after I put on the mask. I shove it up his nostrils hoping to get far enough in that I wouldn't have to pull it back out and try a second time.
Unfortunately, it didn't go far enough so I had to pull it out again. It was bloody and had obviously ripped up the inside of his nose. It would be so much easer if I could just take off his nose and put it back on after I was done! I push the hook back up this nose. This time I had got to a good spot. I wriggle the hook around in his nose trying to make it easer to move in and out. Finally I found something soft and squishy, his brain.
I tried to get a good hold on it so I wouldn't have to make a second trip. I slowly pulled it out. It fell out on his chest and collapsed in on it self. As one of the slaves picked it up it oozed down his arm and caused part of the brain to fall on the floor.
There was blood everywhere, on the hook, on me, on Kunan and now on the floor. Another slave ran to help, picking the left hemisphere off the ground.
Well at least the brain wasn't a lost cause. He didn't need one in the after life and it was going to be thrown away anyway. Another slave came to help but slid on the blood on the floor and landed on his head.
Thank Ra, he hadn't landed on the canopic jars. I snatched the brain off the two slaves and put it in a tub. The fools, I was surprised the god Aunbis didn't strike them down then and there. After it was done I took a rest while the slaves prepared for the next procedure.