Motif
burial by ancestors or ancestral land
burial_by_ancestors_or_ancestral_land
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family, within the sub-family Tombs, Graves, and Ancestral Landscapes. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20884-20904 confidence: high
Mohammedan authors are said to write that Jacob lived in Egypt twenty-four years, ordered burial in Palestine by his father, and Joseph performed this before returning to Egypt and dying later.
Jacob orders burial in Palestine by his father, and Joseph’s bones are later buried by his ancestors.
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