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Global Rites and Rituals of Farewell
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  • 1. Relating to blood, sometimes used in rituals involving cremation
  • 2. Japanese festival honoring ancestral spirits
  • 3. Traditional ritual dance performed at some Native American funerals
  • 4. A grand tomb enclosing a body above ground
  • 9. High platform used by the Toraja people to place deceased relatives
  • 12. Small aromatic bag placed with the dead in some funeral rites
  • 15. Japanese drum sometimes used in funeral performances
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  • 5. A rare custom involving sending messages with the deceased’s belongings
  • 6. Another term for a stone coffin or burial container
  • 7. Referring to the practice of writing messages on the deceased’s feet in some cultures
  • 8. Person who conducts a funeral ceremony, often non-religious
  • 10. Remains left after cremation
  • 11. To dig up a buried body for ritual or legal reasons
  • 13. Hindu concept of liberation, often referenced in funeral rituals
  • 14. Culture known for sky burials feeding vultures
  • 16. Vigil held before a burial to honor the dead

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