Table of Contents
- 1 What are ancient burial sites?
- 2 What are the funeral practices and burial customs in the Philippines?
- 3 What is Pabaon tradition?
- 4 Where did burials originate?
- 5 What is burial in the Philippines?
- 6 What was the burial and mourning customs during the pre colonial era of early Filipinos?
- 7 What is Bagupantao pottery?
What are ancient burial sites?
21 Tombs Around the World
- Tomb of Kazanlak (Kazanlak, Bulgaria)
- Mausoleum of the first Qin emperor (Xi’an, China)
- Ming tombs (Beijing, China)
- Mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen (Nanjing, China)
- Kom el-Shoqafa catacombs (Alexandria, Egypt)
- Tutankhamen’s tomb (near Luxor, Egypt)
- Napoleon’s tomb (Paris, France)
What are the funeral practices and burial customs in the Philippines?
On the day of a Filipino funeral, a hearse takes the casket to the church in a funeral procession. After the funeral service and mass are concluded, a hearse takes the casket to the cemetery for the burial. For nine days after the burial, also known as a novena, mourners say prayers such as the rosary.
What is the burial rites of Lumad?
Upon interment, they place death blankets over the corpses and then set in burial caves. This group buries the dead in beautiful garments with jewelry, spears, and ritual plates for their journey to the afterlife. Men of higher status are interred in coffins with carvings.
What is Pabaon tradition?
“Pabaon”, as present day Filipinos know, is the tradition of including the priced possessions or items of the dead to its grave because of the belief that these things might be helpful to the deceased as it travels to the life after death. This has been a practice since the neolithic times.
Where did burials originate?
In many cultures, human corpses were usually buried in soil. The roots of burial as a practice reach back into the Middle Palaeolithic and coincide with the appearance of Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens, in Europe and Africa respectively. As a result, burial grounds are found throughout the world.
What are burial customs?
Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor. The funeral usually includes a ritual through which the corpse receives a final disposition.
What is burial in the Philippines?
Filipinos in Ilocos have funeral and burial traditions known as the pompon or “burial rites”. The wife of the deceased person prepares the body with specially chosen clothes by herself, and is placed in a coffin in the center of the house when done.
What was the burial and mourning customs during the pre colonial era of early Filipinos?
During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. For example, the Manobos buried their dead in trees, the Ifugaos seated the corpse on a chari before it was brought to a cave and buried elsewhere.
What is pre Spanish art?
Pre-Hispanic Art Sculpture was an important part of life, as the flexibility of clay and mud was discovered, and used to make pottery and ceramics, with intricate decorative designs. These, and many other indigenous art forms, later blended with European art forms, but even so many have prevailed to this day.
What is Bagupantao pottery?
Bagupantao Pottery The type of paste is the same as Bagupantao plain, red-brown in color. It is also highly decorated on its rim with circles, punctuations and crenellations.