Death Crossword
Across
- 2. The culture in which the "Sky Burial" is a tradition
- 7. A group of people indigenous to the island of Borneo who's death rituals involve burying their dead twice
- 8. Category of body disposal in which a mausoleum belongs
- 9. In Van Gennep's Book, 3 themes mark every life cycle ceremony, the first being: A rite of BLANK
- 10. The process of freeze-drying a body, shattering it into dust, and using the dust as compost
- 11. In Van Gennep's Book, 3 themes mark every life cycle ceremony, the third being: A rite of BLANK
- 14. The believe that one will be reborn after death as a different person or animal
- 15. A method of preservation some use in hopes of staving off decay long enough to cure the body of whatever killed it
- 18. BLANK of the Dead
- 20. The practice of eating the flesh of a person from the same community
Down
- 1. Method of burial involving wrapping the body in white linen
- 3. A funeral practice in India where the wife of the deceased self-immolates by throwing herself into a funeral pyre, either voluntarily or involuntarily
- 4. A technique used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts for scientific display
- 5. A threshold or border between two places, stages, or worlds
- 6. According to Van Gennep in "The Rites of Passage," life is a journey, the individual a BLANK
- 12. According to "Collective Representations of Death," an essay by Robert Hertz, death is not an event, but instead a BLANK
- 13. In Van Gennep's Book, 3 themes mark every life cycle ceremony, the second being: A rite of BLANK
- 16. The 5 elements in Hindu tradition that the physical body is made of: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and BLANK
- 17. The tradition of burning a person's deceased body
- 19. Religion in action