Interestingly enough, in regards to this particular root "necro" and variants, in reading the other notes on that page, I thought I was seeing a Indo-Persian-European sort of spread of usage, which made me wonder as to Egyptian, also.
Woops, I said that magic word. Now the can is opened, and I hope reformed Egyptian worms don't come crawling out.
Have you ever tried to read BYU scholarship which pretends itself to in some way establish that the funeral scrolls bought by J.Smith, can translate into what J.S. claimed, that he alone at the time could understand? (the book of Abraham is tied to an Egyptian funeral scroll)
People around here may think I jibber-jabber without getting to the point. Those guys can go on for days without getting anywhere. Or present stuff by way of what seems to me to be sleight-of-hand that fools chiefly themselves. MEGO to the max.
It's rather hilarious that just a few years after Smith bought and allegedly "translated" that scroll, a decade or so, maybe two, the Rosetta Stone was decoded enough for those who work in those language fields, to begin unraveling a few remaining mysteries.
Since there is enough scholarship concerning those sort of scrolls (there are many of them, from over a span of centuries), and the meanings have been fairly well determined (the scrolls repeat the same themes --- with the rise and fall of Egyptian kings documented amongst the various collections of scrolls by reference, and what god or goddess they were associated with have their fortunes as it were, also rise and fall (or change), then the Smith "translation" should be the coffin nail, if there were not enough already...for the scrolls are many (and more repetitive than not, which is the most telling aspect) and are many "nails" as it were.
One dead and gone mistaken "god" vision-religion, coming out of the tombs like a mummy's curse breathing [from the link which you provided];
upon Joey's accumulation of fraud.
It's like -- majic, the kind the Pharaoh's magicians knew the tricks of. The ones which brought death.
Things are pretty grim when even the mummies cackle at ya'.
And, no, I have not looked at explanations for Smith's translation of the Egyptian scroll though I am fairly certain he would not have made the translation he did were he aware of what would be happening in the future, i.e. the Rosetta Stone.
Also, I suspect the belief system survives despite such things mostly because the beliefs are widely integrated with a culture. Rejecting the beliefs might also require rejecting the culture.
It would be like having to give up being a Texan in order to walk away from Koresh's Branch Davidians. But Koresh's beliefs were not integrated into a culture beyond his own compound in Waco. Praise God!
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear BlueDragon!