Motif
directional orientation of the dead
directional_orientation_of_the_dead
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
finnic
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The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns, Volume 1 TRANSITION FROM BRONZE TO IRON 097 / TRANSITION FROM BRONZE TO IRON 99 / THE EARLIER IRON AGE IN FINLAND 103 / EARLIER IRON AGE IN BALTIC PROVINCES 105; lines 3989-4056 confidence: medium
Two skeletons were observed with heads south and feet north; one was a robust man about thirty years old; skulls were crushed.
Two skeletons were observed as laid with heads to the south and feet to the north.
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