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. Secondary burial is still carried out in southern and eastern Europe with attendant rituals that seem strange to us north westerners .
