Commemoration of death — Mythoi

Motif

Commemoration of death.

Religion. · Religious services. · Funeral rites. · view the constellation · filed as V65

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Chinese Myths & Legends of China , Chapter I
Depth Commentary Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics , Chapter IV
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXXIX XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris
Yoruba The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa , Chapter 9

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Funeral rites.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Calves kept separate from cows in commemoration of hero's death Drinking festival in memory of the dead Wedding and funeral festival on same time Professional mourning Funeral games

Filed beside 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 Funeral sermon Accompaniments of burial. (Cf. V61.3.0.1.) Preparations for burial Funeral rites – miscellaneous

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