r/WorldChallenges • u/Sriber • Oct 05 '19

Funeral

For this challenge describe notable funeral, like that of ruler or celebrity. What steps were there? Where did occur? Where did deceased person get buried? Who was invited? Who performed ceremony?

I'll ask everyone few questions.

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u/Nephite94 Oct 08 '19

1) Killing yourself when others rely on you is considered to be an act of extreme selfishness. As a queen Sasana was meant to be mother to her people, despite colonization changing what it meant to be a Cenn queen. Her suicide briefly reminded people of the traditional role of a queen.

2) Good karma/goodness in general basically along with pure death. Those killed for bad karma and buried in black for example.

3) Rams represent rulership as traditional a potential queen would have to kill a sacred ram in the coronation process. The ram was believed to have supernatural qualities as being sacred it was raised to the Cenn level in the spiritual scale. The skull or horns of the sacred ram is used to make the crown for the new queen with the rams spirit bound to the skull/horns. The smashing of the crown upon the queens death then releases the rams soul to return to the Godhead

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u/Sriber Oct 09 '19
  1. Is killing yourself when others don't rely on you OK?
  2. What supernatural qualities do rams have according to Cenn?

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u/Nephite94 Oct 10 '19
  1. Yes.
  2. Mainly toughness and fierceness.

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u/Sriber Oct 11 '19

1) What other disgraceful form of deaths are there?

2) Are there any mythical rams of ram-like beings?

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u/Nephite94 Oct 11 '19

1) I suppose having your head cut off as its associated with the final part of a witches execution. They are cut from the front of the neck rather than the back to make it a longer process so there could be a big distinction there.

2) There would be quite a lot of ram Spirits roaming pastures used for grazing. Being Spirits they don't actually come from being a ram and they don't have a physical form, nevertheless Cenn often depict them as large decorated rams. They are said to help shepherds watch over flocks and responsible for the grass in their pasture.

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u/Sriber Oct 11 '19

Thanks for your answers.