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tiompan wrote: Yes ,the more sanitised stuff is relatively recent and it's imagined that the beliefs and rituals are pretty similar even across Europe , when that is not the case . Secondary burial is still carried out in southern and eastern Europe with attendant rituals that seem strange to us north westerners . Rituals respect the dead and the living. I think that's where the word came from. A religious term. Almost like a trance - like prayer. Reply | with quote | Posted by Markoid 13th June 2016ce 13:43 In reply to: Re: What they did with their dead .... (tiompan) |
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