#burial practices

[charlesreeza]

Roman sarcophagus with strigliata decoration, Carrara marble, used for the burial of Archbishop Bartolomeo d'Antiochia in 1311

Crypt of Palermo Cathedral - photos by Charles Reeza

#Roman art #marble sculpture #tomb #Sicily #Italy #Sicilia #burial practices #ancient art #classical antiquity

[ancientorigins]

Royal secrets of the past have been uncovered! 21 tombs dating back 2,000 years have been discovered on a Chinese mountainside, filled with luxury artifacts and a rare "couples grave", suggesting it was an ancient royal burial site.

#tomb #burial #mausoleum #burial practices #Han Dynasty #China #royal #ancient #history #ancient origins

[vintageterror]

#1950s #fate magazine #vampire #stake #burial practices #corpse

[astoicmind]

Why didn't someone tell me that researching a niche area of archaeology would be difficult... its almost as if there's barely any research on this... who could have known... :'D

#archeology #archaeology #prehistory #prehistoric #research #EPQ #arabian peninsula #palaeolithic #neolithic #ancient history #classics #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #burial practices #mortuary archaeology #burial rites #research project

[stseregh]

#3d #3d photo #stereopair #stereoscopic #cross eyed #architecture #burial practices #mausoleum #mountains

[abs0luteb4stard]

The first in a long series of episodes where we cover death cultures throughout time and space, welcome to DCD: 'Death Culture Discourse'! This episode catalogs the practices of what we thought would be our viewer’s most sought after culture: the ancient Egyptians.

Such a good episode. Love Egyptian stuff!

#Ancient Egypt #mortuary science #funeral industry #funeral directors #embalming #funeral homes #death #mummification #pharaohs #burial #Cremation #trocar #Hieroglyphics #Sarcophagus #Canopic jars #Excerebration #mortmic #podcast #burial practices #Anubis #Thoth #death care #morgue

[emmaklee]

(via “Stop, here is the empire of death” – Anita Guerrini)

transi or cadaver tomb of Bishop Stephen Gardiner, 1556

Winchester Cathedral

#transi #burial practices #decay as spectator sport

[anakinsafterlife]

I took the train into downtown Toronto today and visited the Royal Ontario Museum. Spent some time with my proto-translations of Egyptian stelae (I say proto because I translate maybe half and then spend ten minutes mumbling vague syllables like I know what I'm doing).

Found a pre-dynastic burial of a weaver (probably, based on a tool placed in the grave), naturally rather than chemically mummified, by the desert climate, and curled up and turned to the west (the direction in which the Egyptians believed for many hundreds of years that the afterlife was to be found). The body was so tiny and forlorn, and because this is pre-dynastic, pre-literacy, there was no written record of this person's identity. You could still see the expression on the face, though, something like five thousand years later, a face so small and fragile and still, and I wanted to scoop up this tiny person from their glass case and embrace them, hold them to offer warmth and comfort. But I couldn't, can't, and that is the fullness and futility of death and life.

Then, just to make it worse, I watched a museum film about being human and all that entails: the good, the evil, the magnificence and the one inevitability of erasure, and sat there in front of the screen weeping for half an hour.

Capped it with a trip to the museum gift shop, natch, to fulfill my Obligatory Capitalism.

Then went to a café for actually good café latte. Sitting here now listening to Tiny Dancer...which might make me cry again.

#weekends #day trip #personal #history #egypt #musea #museum #royal ontario museum #toronto #being human #death #burial #life #burial practices #elton john #memories

[alovecraft]

Mortician Answers Burial Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

+ When our buddy Robbie died (he helped plan his own funeral, was completely at ease with it, always had a joke.), he was surrounded by his swords, his guns, his guitars. They played his favorite music. You had normal people, rednecks, and goth kids filling up the whole place, talking, laughing, making jokes, occasionally going up to the podium to say something, embracing one another. 

I miss him. He was good people.

+ We do have locally-owned funeral homes, and I’m fairly sure at least one or two corporate owned ones. We’re home to Oakeys, and they are a long line of a family. They shop at our store, their kids go to the same schools we went to, etc. 

We also have the little family owned place that took over for planning Rhonda’s funeral. The guy who runs it shops in our store every week like clockwork. He went to school with Rhonda and her siblings and was the man who stood before us on the cemetery grounds when we buried Jamie’s great-aunt and his grandfather.

+ And, on a lighter note:

we live in the region/area where a local slave owner was buried standing up so he could “survey his land for eternity.” It’s still a farm, you just...can’t go on the property in search of this guy’s location.

#youtube #link #burial practices

[pagans-of-tomorrow]

#Vikings #Burial Practices #Finnish History #Non Binary #Youtube

[charlesreeza]

Four-winged seraphim on a 16th century marble sarcophagus from the Palermo workshop of Antonello Gagini. A bean flower, a symbol of death and regeneration, rises between the angel's upper wings. The sarcophagus was made for the burial of the archbishop Ottaviano Precvonio in 1568.

Photos by Charles Reeza in the crypt of Palermo Cathedral

#marble sculpture #tomb #burial practices #Sicily #Italy #travel photos #Sicilia

[lrosewrites]

On decomposition

"May God have mercy on your soul," Someone prayed for me on their knees; "I have other plans," I said: "My soul is for the honeybees."

Bury me in a mountain meadow Where the wildflowers grow; Return me to the loamy soil Rich and dark beneath the snow.

There, the earthworms and the fungi Will begin their holy work; As they decompose my body My soul, too, breaks down to earth.

From there, I ask the hungry roots, "How much new life can I feed? Take everything I was in life And fulfill your every need."

My soul is for sage and bee balm Stalk and leaf, pollen and petal; My soul is for the honeybees In beehives I will settle.

"Save your mercy for the living," I said to the penitent; "Ask and the earth will teach you How well your death will be spent."

#poem #poetry #original poem #original poetry #poet #death #decomposition #bees #honeybees #burial #burial practices #soul #spirituality

[goncharovbarbie]

#2023 #january 2023 #readings #burial practices #the inverted dead of britain’s bronze age barrows: a perspective from conceptual metaphor theory #rob wiseman #michael j allen #catriona gibson #death #research article

[harena--tigris]

playing with new styles using my hunter muse, lenore

#bloodborne #good hunter #bloodborne oc #fromsoftware #bb #burial blade #my art #no i actually did not care about the lighting at all i just wanted it to look cool #hoping this isnt too eye straining #it started as a pose practice and now it turned into a style practice too #who or what is she about to shove that blade into #or is she just showing off #we will never know #if you know please tell me #bloodborne fanart

[vigilskeep]

do you think it fucks hawke up that in both circumstances where a sibling dies they have to leave their body behind to be desecrated by darkspawn when fereldan andrastians burn their dead to send them to the maker and are shown to be uncomfortable even with the idea of burial

#sorry taking a hard left from warden infertility chatter to talk abt ✨burial practices✨

[stseregh]

#3d #3d photo #stereoscopic #stereopair #mountains #mausoleum #burial practices #architecture #medieval