Third part of my trip through Egypt to visually tell the experience lived in the African Continent, Egypt and its ancient culture.
I believe that Egyptian culture fascinates and captivates by its remarkable, specialized and singular conception and treatment of death; mummification and all the rituals related to death, transcendence and the afterlife that this people practiced transfer to our imagination the idea that they could be in possession (or on the way to obtaining it, or closer than others and that, for of course, us) of something like the secret of eternal life, that is, of defeating or overcoming death.
Although our modern rational part argues solidly and scientifically against the existence of an afterlife, our archetypes and arcana (which, among other origins, come precisely from the Egyptians) make us persist in the irrational hope of an experienceable eternity, and we see that culture (and others that have left much less of an impact and have been less or hardly influential in human history) as authentic specialists in interaction with death and the afterlife.