Sentence examples for funerary rites from inspiring English sources

The skull mask is another form usually associated with funerary rites.

This pottery form of the gu was sometimes used in funerary rites.

However, this journey will be successful only if the gwobonanj receives proper care through special funerary rites.

Funerary rites do not usually terminate with the disposal of the corpse either by burial or cremation.

In the chapel, priests performed the daily funerary rites and presented the offerings to the dead king's ka (protective spirit).

Another such centre with its own myths is Gaya, especially sacred for the funerary rites that are held there.

How is it done?Two imperatives have shaped the evolution of the human funerary rite: physical hygiene in this life and spiritual preparation for the next.

It's a funerary rite specific to this Tamang culture and I have a video from it that's so poignant to look at now.

He begins this dense, often provocative book, for example, with an account of a young girl in Papua New Guinea who grew ill after consuming parts of her grandmother's brain in a funerary rite.

Because they knew, from the "kuru" epidemic in New Guinea -- where the funerary rite included eating the brains of a dead relative -- that the infectious agent is in the brain and spinal cord, they were able to recommend the removal of these tissues from all meat for human consumption.

"By having a socially regimented funerary rite we can go through that transition in an orderly fashion," said Andrew Chamberlain, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield in England and the co-author, with Michael Parker Pearson, of "Earthly Remains: The History and Science of Preserved Bodies" (British Museum, 2001).