10 Burial Ceremonies From Around The World

[Susano]

Or -- 10 ways to make your cultures a little different (and 10 ways to avoid the same old tombs to plunder....)

 

 

http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/06/25/10-extraordinary-burial-ceremonies-from-around-the-world/

[phookz]

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Nice find

[jaws]

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Its just impossible to give rep where it is deserved these days! Grat find

[Guest Admiral C]

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Can't give more rep to you now, crud.

[Basil]

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I'm surprised they didn't have the Zoroastrian burial customs. From http://www.religionfacts.com/zoroastrianism/index.htm:

 

Zoroastrian burial rites center on exposure of the dead. After death, a dog is brought before the corpse (preferably a "four-eyed" dog, i.e., with a spot above each eye, believed to increase the efficacy of its gaze). The rite is repeated five times a day. After the first one, fire is brought into the room where it is kept burning until three days after the removal of the corpse to the Tower of Silence. The removal must be done during the daytime.

 

The interior of the Tower of Silence is built in three concentric circles, one each for men, women, and children. The corpses are exposed there naked. The vultures do not take long—an hour or two at the most—to strip the flesh off the bones, and these, dried by the sun, are later swept into the central well. Formerly the bones were kept in an ossuary, the astodan, to preserve them from rain and animals. The morning of the fourth day is marked by the most solemn observance in the death ritual, for it is then that the departed soul reaches the next world and appears before the deities who are to pass judgment over it.