Funerary Customs & Traditions

Strange Funerary & Burial Customs & Traditions thru Time

Ohel (Shrine)

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/ohel-shrine 6th Dec 2022 - In Traditional Jewish Funerary Customs, Burials after death MUST be down within several days. The use of embalming and other preservation methods, are …

Ledger Stone

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/ledger-stone 6th Dec 2022 - A ‘’Ledger Stone’’ is a type of Funerary Art, common in Europe around the mid to late Middle Ages. These were flat granite sto …

Ceremonial Pole

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/ceremonial-pole 5th Dec 2022 - A facet (primarily) of Ancient African Tribal Funerary Beliefs, ‘’Ceremonial Poles’’ are used by MANY Cultures and have MANY n …

Antyesti

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/antyesti 4th Dec 2022 - The process of ‘’Antyesti’’ is an Ancient Hindi Funerary Rite, which is in reality – Cremation of a deceased person. Onl …

Totenpass

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/totenpass 4th Dec 2022 - Of Germanic Origins, a ‘’Totenpass’’ – or translated to mean ‘’Passport for The Dead’’, was a fo …

Coffin Collar

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/coffin-collar 3rd Dec 2022 - As we have seen, the theft of bodies (Body Snatching) and of valuables (Grave Robbing) – became a popular endeavor for many 18th thru 19th Centu …

Tomb Guardians

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/tomb-guardians 3rd Dec 2022 - A form of Chinese Funerary Art, ‘’Guardian Statues’’ were carved stone figures, normally of Warriors or mythical ‘&rsquo …

Cadaver Monuments

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/cadaver-monuments 3rd Dec 2022 - Much as with the development of ‘’Effigy Monuments’’ for Tombs, These were seen as a form of tangible means of a Deceased Love …

Church Monuments

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/church-monuments 3rd Dec 2022 - As old as the 7th Century, ‘’Church Monuments’’ were important ways to honor The Dead. Normally located inside a Chapel, Churc …

Mortesafe

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/mortesafe 3rd Dec 2022 - Mortesafe’s were devices that were created around 1816 and in wide used throughout The United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales). Th …

Norse Funerary Customs

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/norse-funerary-customs 3rd Dec 2022 - Beginning in the early Viking Age (6th Century AD), Cremation was the primary form of sending one to the Afterlife. The Deceased were cremated on wood …

Burial at Sea

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/burial-at-sea 3rd Dec 2022 - The Custom involving Burial at Sea, is as old as is sailing The Ocean. It would go without saying that people died on board a vessel (either by "fair …