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Esoteric Rites of Posthumous Passage
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- 1. Culture known for celestial dissection of the departed
- 2. Follower of a philosophy with ancestral tablet rites
- 3. Cryptic ossuary housing crania, a macabre burial form
- 6. Euphemism for corpses left to drift in water rites
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- 4. Process of disinterring corpses for ritual reburial or display
- 5. Ornate, monumental sepulcher often housing multiple entombments
- 7. Adjective describing deeply mournful ceremonies involving lamentations
- 8. Latin root of rituals enveloping death and mourning practices
- 9. Historical Indian practice involving widow’s funeral self-immolation
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