Bodies that don’t Decay

         Bodies that don't Decay - Part 1

   Everybody must know about the mummies of the ancient Egyptian emperors, which were found inside the Pyramids in Egypt. But the strange thing is that, how is it that some people preserve dead bodies for years and years together? Not long ago a woman in India preserved the dead body of her husband for twelve long years. She not only preserved the body, but she bathed it daily and even slept in the same room. The case was too strange. It shook the loving sensibilities of the people. The press reported exhaustively on it and the woman was sent for a medical check-up.

Mummy of Muhammad Marwe

   This is not the only case in the world. There are many others. What then is the reason for preserving a dead body and how do people do it? A little girl named Nadja Mattei died in 1965 in Rome, Italy. She was just two years old at the time of her death. Her mother put the body into a coffin. But for twelve years she continuously dreamt that her daughter was begging to be taken out of the coffin. So the devoted mother tried to convince the authorities to let her open the coffin. But all her efforts were unsuccessful till 1977, when finally the exhumation of Baby Nadja Mattei was granted. Then to every one’s surprise, the body was found to be completely free from rotting. 

   A similar incident occurred at Kano, North of Nigeria. An unorthodox Muslim religious group was led by a self-styled prophet, Muhammad Marwa. He had established himself in 1960s and had a enormous number of followers. But seemingly everything was not as peaceful as it should have been. The orthodox Muslims were against him. Finally the brewing tension exploded in December 1980. A violent riot took place in which as many as eight thousand people were killed. This heretical or unorthodox Muslim leader was also killed in that riot.


   The followers buried him in a shallow grave. But because of the enormous respect that he commanded, three weeks later the Governor gave orders that his body be exhumed and placed on ice in the city mortuary. Even after remaining buried for three weeks, the body of Muhammad Marwa did not decay. The people thought that it was a miracle.

   There are innumerable other cases. There was unearthed a mummy of the “Young lady of Loulan” in Xinjiang province of Chain in 1981, which is claimed to be the oldest mummy n the world. 

Mummy from Chile

   Now the question habitually arises, if such cases are not miracles, what is the reality about them? Often the disbelievers or the skeptics believe that bodies would have been mummified. But this is not completely true. The medical examination of these bodies testified that no preservatives were used and none of the internal organs had been removed. John Cruz wrote a book about these phenomena entitled “The Incorruptibles”. 

   There in that book he described three types of preserved bodies, “those preserved deliberately, the accidentally or naturally preserved, and the true incorruptible”.   John Cruz extensively quotes the cases which were preserved but not in mummified form. He describes the case of a mummy found in a mountain cave in Chile in 1954, which was supposed to have been dragged and left there to freeze as a token of sacrifice. This incident is reported to have occurred some 500 years ago. John Cruz also gives examples of the people of Iron Age who have been found preserved in peat bogs in Denmark, Ireland and Scotland, through the bodies found at these places were discolored by natural chemical processes.






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