Did you know?, Mumification Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the center of intelligence and emotion. They also thought so little of the brain that during mummification, they removed the brain entirely from bodies.

[Guest_Don_*]

So, on the surface, at least, there appears to be a one to one relationship of number of canopic jars, organs within, and sons of Horus.

It is impossible for us moderns to grasp how complex names and numbers and colors and concepts were entwined to these ancients.  A Celt could not say "white" without also simultaneously saying "Guinevere," which also simultaneously said "pure."
Perhaps we come closest with magic numbers.  Of course, to the ancients they were essential rather than our term magic.

2,3,5,7,9,12,27,60 are 'magic numbers' of my exposure. You may wonder about "27?"  Celts used base of 2 and 3. As you have point out elsewhere in "thrice fifty" they used multiples of 2 and 3 this way to express larger quantities or counts.
27 is a thrice nine and 9 is thrice three.  You can see how powerfully fortunate number 27 was to them. Essentially it is thrice-thrice-thrice.  Like being the seventh son of the seventh son to another culture, no?

You spoke of the 7 spirits.  Do you agree similar to 7 dwarfs of European "Snow White?"

"The Big Bear" in northern sky is attributed to magic aspect of either 5 or 7, of which I do not remember.  

To my understanding number 12 came from Egyptians somehow.

Ah yes, Southern and Northern Egypt, which is reverse of our North and South view.  Egyptians saw the heavens upside down from us.  

Don