Motif
deathbed preparation and confirmation of death
deathbed_preparation_and_confirmation_of_death
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.
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confucian
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The Li Ki, Books XI-XLVI (The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part IV; Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 28) BOOK XII. MING THANG WEI / BOOK XIII. SANG FU HSIAO Al / BOOK XV. SHAO f / THE GREATER RECORD OF MOURNING RITES.; lines 7003-7137 confidence: high
At extreme illness the house is swept, rank-associated instruments are removed, the sufferer is placed with head east and reclothed, fine floss checks for breath, and men and women are not to die in the hands of the opposite sex.
The passage presents a sequence of cleaning, object removal, body orientation, reclothing, movement to the ground, and breath testing with floss during extreme illness.
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