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The view of the Catholic Church of the Viceroyalty of Peru on indigenous funeral rites [PDF]
the article analyzes the Church's position on the funeral rites that were practiced by the Peruvian Indigenous in the early colonial period. First, the author presents a brief description of the Andean funeral rite, most of the elements of which (the ...
Elena Novoselova
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Church censing ritual — fumigation with incense or its substitutes — is widespread in folk culture. It plays a particularly important role in funeral and memorial rites, where the fumigation is usually carried out in order to ritually purify people ...
S. Korolyova +2 more
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Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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The text presents newly discovered graves of Strzyżów culture from the Early Bronze Age, located at a cemetery in Rogalin, Poland. The funeral rites of Strzyżów culture are multifaceted. Most of the dead were placed in graves in supine position, equipped
Anna Hyrchała
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Historiography of the major English-language studies of death, afterlife, and memorial rites in Buddhism [PDF]
The article reviews the main English-language works devoted to the study of "Buddhist death": ideas about death, the afterlife, funeral and memorial rites in the countries where Buddhism is widespread. Considerable attention is paid to the description of
Gunskii Aleksey
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Some aspects of funeral rites among modern abkhazians
The article is devoted to the study of the funeral rite in modern Abkhazian society. For a long time, the ancestors of modern Abkhazians got acquainted with Christianity and Islam, and these world religions have left their mark on the ritual life of ...
Ritsa Sh. Zelnitskaya
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Ze studiów nad obrządkiem pogrzebowym społeczności kultury wielbarskiej na Pojezierzu Gnieźnieńskim. Przykład cmentarzyska w Palędziu Kościelnym (stan. 1) w powiecie mogileńskim [PDF]
This paper presents the results of archaeological excavations at the burial mound cemetery used by a Wielbark culture community at Palędzie Kościelne, in the Gniezno Lake District. The sources provide further contribution to a better understanding of the
Smaruj, Andrzej
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The Emergence and Development of Christian Funeral Rites in the Byzantine Empire in the X–XII Centuries [PDF]
The article analyses the structure of the Byzantine funeral rites in the X–XII centuries and explores the thematic heterogeneity of their earliest elements, namely prayers, biblical readings, and hymnography. The exploration of the funeral rites from the
Zoya Dashevskaya, Julia Shtonda
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Le blanc à l’épreuve des rites funéraires dans Le blanc de l’Algérie d’Assia Djebar
Our goal in this work is to examine the process of death textualization in Assia Djebar's novel entitled Le Blanc of Algeria (1995). Thus, tracing the course in writing of the white color, we will try to clear up through this text a poetic death, which ...
Mounya Belhocine
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