Motif
Animal grave offering and funerary treatment
animal_grave_offering_and_funerary_treatment
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 3290-3388 confidence: medium
A dough snake is buried with a small grave; women worship there during nine days of September, offer curds, kneel and touch the earth, divide remaining curds among children, and the passage states the dough snake substitutes for a real snake because worship occurs in jungles where snakes abound.
The dough snake receives a grave and offerings, and dead snakes and wrens receive funerary handling or burial.
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