- persons. Then,
dragging it
beyond the village, they
speedily constructed a
funeral pile; and upon one of them
saying that the
pestilential body
would not burn...
- that one of the sons of the wang-na
watches at the temple, near the
funeral pile,
night and day, till the body is consumed; the
ashes of the consumed...
- replied: Be it so. This
burning of
widows is your custom;
prepare the
funeral pile. But my
nation has also a custom. When men burn
women alive we hang them...
- poet
Snorri Sturluson, she
launched the
largest of all
ships at Baldr's
funeral after the Æsir gods were
unable to
budge the vessel.
Hyrrokkin was a relatively...
- that if his
books "were all
burnt as the
grandest of
Suttees on his
funeral pile, it
would be only like
cutting down an oak
after its
acorns have sown...
- Armenia. When
Lucullus arrived he
celebrated his
funeral rites with
great pomp,
setting fire to the
funeral pile with his own hand, and had a
sumptuous monument...
- The Cinq-Mars
pile is an
ancient tower that
overlooks the
Loire Valley in the
commune of Cinq-Mars-la-
Pile,
located in Indre-et-Loire,
approximately twenty...
-
meaning "heaped-up", is a
Sanskrit term for a
mound or
pedestal or "
funeral pile". It is a
sacred construction of some sort, and has
acquired different...
-
which did
through life his woes beguile,
Supplied the old man with a
funeral pile. — Alcaeus of
Mytilene Pliny the
Elder described a
story of a boy who...
- replied: "Be it so. This
burning of
widows is your custom;
prepare the
funeral pile. But my
nation has also a custom. When men burn
women alive we hang them...
