Funeral and burial practices in the Philippines involve a range of personal, cultural and traditional beliefs. A wake is usually held from three days to a week in the home or funeral home before the body is entombed. After entombment, mourners offer prayers for the deceased every evening for nine days.
Early Filipinos practiced various burial customs such as burying the dead inside wooden coffins or jars, placing personal belongings and food offerings with the deceased, and holding elaborate funeral rituals involving chanting, dancing, and animal sacrifices. Some cultures also believed in burying their dead facing east, towards the rising sun.
Some synonyms for burial chamber include coffin, crypt, and grave. Other examples include tomb, mausoleum, and catacomb. Burial chamber is a noun.
Different tribes in the Philippines have diverse burial practices. Some tribes bury their deceased family members in coffins or wooden boxes above ground, while others bury them underground in fetal position. Some tribes also conduct ritualistic ceremonies during the burial process, such as chanting, dancing, and offering of food and belongings to the deceased. Additionally, some tribes practice secondary burial, where the remains are exhumed after a period of time and transferred to a communal ossuary.
Northwest tribes such as the Haida, Tlingit, and Coast Salish practiced various funeral customs. Some tribes buried the dead in graves, while others used burial scaffolds or canoes. Funerary practices often involved rituals and ceremonies to honor the deceased and guide their spirits to the afterlife.
The Celts practiced both cremation and burial. They typically cremated their dead in funeral pyres, and sometimes buried the cremated remains in burial mounds or urns. Some high-ranking individuals were buried in elaborate graves with valuable items.
When Stone Age people died, their bodies were often buried with items they would need in the afterlife, such as tools or personal belongings. Some groups practiced burial rituals, while others may have practiced cremation. The exact customs varied depending on the cultural beliefs and practices of each group.
An example of cultural diffusion in the Philippines is the Filipinos adopting some Spanish customs after Spain colonized the country.
Ancient Egyptian religion and burial practices focused on the belief in an afterlife and the preservation of the body through mummification. Coptic Christianity, which has its roots in early Christianity in Egypt, follows its own religious beliefs and burial traditions, including the use of rock-cut tombs. Islam, the dominant religion in contemporary Egypt, follows Islamic burial practices, which involve a simple burial with the body facing Mecca. Judaism has a long history in Egypt, and Jewish burial practices follow Jewish religious customs, including burial within 24 hours of death and without embalming. There are also small communities of Baha'is in Egypt who practice their own burial rituals, including burial in designated Baha'i cemeteries.
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Early human's commonly didn't give burial services, it was only till the concept of Religion came into being was burial practiced. One was found to be buried with plant matter, thought to be flowers. So its possible that some concept of grief and burial was created before the concept of Religion, and done purely out of respect.
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Yes, the Celts practiced various burial customs, including burying their dead in simple pits or elaborate tombs. Some Celts were also cremated, with their ashes placed in urns or buried in graves. Each Celtic community had its own burial traditions and practices.
One of the Greek burial rites were that some were burned/cremated soon after their death.
The Chinese people had early trade with the Filipinos. The Filipinos gave gold, silver, and the abundance of the riches of nature. In exchange with this, the Chinese shared their culture to the Filipinos. They had a lot of things that influenced our Filipino culture. Some of these are: porcelainware, art of mining and metallurgy, customs such as prearranged marriage, close family ties, manufacture of gunpowder, loose style of clothing, camisa de chino, etc...
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Some historian said that colonizer do more harm rather than good things to the early Filipinos. Before the colonization, Filipino civilization only came from the Malays and in the response of the new environment, their social organization is divided into two ranks, men and women have an equal rights in the society and they only believed in one god called Bathala.
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the burial? there was more than one burial in ancient egypt, and there were some funeral dinners depending on who was buried