Hinson Dong, Period 6, 11/25/22

 Hinson Dong

Period 6

11/25/2022

Modern Mythology Blog 2023

Blog #2

Socio-political Consciousness

    It was during class time where we watched this documentary about the Ancient Egyptian Book

of the Dead. I’ve learned that the ancient Egyptians would have to buy this book at a very high

price point as this book would take months to manually produce. Due to the book being this

expensive to access, only nobles and people at the high status would have been able to buy it.

Not only that, people of different social classes would be treated differently at death depending

on how their body was preserved which I felt was kind of unfair because everyone should have

the equal chance of being preserved or have a safe route to the afterworld. The Book of the

Dead was a scroll that led the dead to a safe route through the dangers of death and safely to

the Land of Reed where they would live peacefully and for eternity. At different social classes,

people would have been buried differently. While some may have a pyramid and will have the

safest route to the after world based on their beliefs, others may be buried next to a pyramid

where they were said to be able to follow nobles or people of higher status. People of lower

status would have really bad preserved bodies while not having the luxury treatment of some on

the higher status.

    I believe that treatment of people based on social class status or differences of people may be

unfair. Of those that may not have that much money or power, they should have the rights to be

treated the same as those of higher power and money. I feel like people should not be treated

based on their status and that they should be treated equally. I believe that no matter how

different someone is from another or no matter what feature they have that may set them apart

from someone, that they would be looked at the same as us and treated the same. I feel like

people should not judge others based on how they are different from others. This goes back to

the documentary where you may see some people having the proper ritual where their body is

preserved really well and a body from the poorer class who has a body that was not treated with

care. Also looking at their perspective of death being scary, where some may not be able to

afford this book of the dead and may not be able to follow through peacefully as a noble may.

I think that this can relate to the modern present time as people may be treated differently based

on differences. I believe that people should be treated the same and not be judged on

differences. I believe that people should have their own beliefs and freedom to do whatever they

believe to do as long as it’s right. But most importantly, they should be treated the same. I feel

like I’ve seen this before where my parents who don’t speak english that fluently may be treated

differently in public places like restaurants whereas they may treat me and my friends differently

and more formally. Thus, I believe that there is an issue with oppression and inequity. There

should be a look at more of our similarities instead of differences where people shouldn’t be

seen based on gender, race, or income but should be seen as another person.