Funeral rites — Mythoi

Motif

Funeral rites.

Religion. · Religious services. · Funeral rites. · view the constellation · filed as V60

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IX
Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VII
ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XLXL. The Nature of Osiris
GreekHesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section CIII

Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish myth*Cross
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 212a

Within the index

11 finer motifs beneath it

Stones sold at funeral wakes Funeral rites by druids Various ways of disposing of dead Restrictions on burial Bones of dismembered person assembled and buried. (Cf. E30.)Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial Commemoration of death Funeral sermon Accompaniments of burial. (Cf. V61.3.0.1.)Preparations for burial Funeral rites – miscellaneous

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