funerary rituals
Rites for deceased
Funerary rituals are the ceremonies and practices surrounding death and burial.
These vary enormously across cultures but typically include preparation of the body, mourning observances, and disposal through burial, cremation, or other means.
The rituals serve both practical purposes and psychological ones—honoring the dead while helping the living process grief: The funerary rituals lasted three days.
- grave goodsItems interred with corpses
- burial customsPractices for interring dead
- burial ritesCeremonies for interring deceased
- urnsFooted ceremonial vessels
- cremationBurning the deceased
scattering ashes · ancestor worship · processions · prayer · offerings · embalming · laying in state · open casket · Bronze Age · keening · communal meals · tumuli · burial mound · purification · wakes · final farewell · coffins · incense
- skeletal analysishuman remains, osteology, long bones, sex determination, bone age
funerary ritualschristenings
Ceremonies naming and blessing infants
baptisms · baby showers · birth rituals · christening · baptism
funerary ritualscelebrations of life
Events honoring the departed
jubilees · victory celebrations · jubilee · coronation ceremonies · harvest festivals
funerary ritualsdirect burial
Casket placed directly underground