Documents from the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus suggest Herod was buried at the Herodium, laid out on a gold bed draped with opulent fabrics, and thronged by the entire army and a massive funerary procession, said Joseph Patrich, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Some with massive bases are carried in procession by initiates, who swing them from side to side and strike the earth to call ancestral spirits to join the rites.
Call this procession Boutique Monumental.
Ramped up tenfold during the Obama administration, the drone program has killed an untold number of innocent people – in wedding convoys and funeral processions and elsewhere – and led to massive amounts of collateral damage in the name of anti-terrorism.
Though modelled ceremonially on Pamplona's event, with an early morning procession carrying the statue of St Fermin, a massive troupe of drummers and trumpeters, the "bulls" in the New Orleans version of the 8am Saturday start of the El Encierro run are actually fully-loaded rollerblade girls.
In 1979, after the ayatollah led a procession lauding the Islamic revolution in Iran, Shiites staged massive riots against the Iraqi regime.
But everyone loved the opera's famous triumphal march, which in this production featured Chinese soldiers dressed as Egyptian warriors marching in formation across the massive stage and around the stadium's oval track in a procession more befitting the opening of the Olympic games than a three-hour opera.
The crowds followed the end of the procession and were diverted into Hyde Park Corner, where two massive screens had been set up to enable thousands to watch the funeral being held in Westminster Abbey.
Importantly, this shift from being procession-based to the static sound systems had massive appeal to inherently bone-idle teenagers, to whom standing about should have been an Olympic event.
Their typical design consisted of a series of enclosed halls, open courts, and massive entrance pylons aligned along the path used for festival processions.
