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People who practiced the Japanese ritual called Sokushinbutsu.
Who were the Japanese Buddhists?
The Guinean tribe most knew for practicing death rituals.
What is the Anga tribe?
The "Famadihana" is a Madagascar death ritual also known with another name.
Why is the Famadihana ritual also called "turning the bones"?
The Indian "Sati" ritual involves a woman.
Why a widowed women should lie in a pyre with his deceased husband?
Population which used to practice death rituals in Australia.
Who are the aboriginals?
Process of self-mummification steps.
What is the mummification?
Reason why the Malagasy people open their family crypt.
Why, to hasten the decomposition of the deceased bodies, do they exhume their dead from the crypt?
The terrible sacrifice the Sati ritual involves.
Why the widowed women was burnt alive with his husband?
Conditions the aboriginal left their dead in.
Why the aboriginal used to leave their dead outside to make them be covered by dirt and leaves?
Ways the monks managed to remove the fat in order to reach a perfect self-mummification.
Why did the monks undergo a strict diet composed by pine needles, resins, and seeds?
Treatment the tribe reserves to the deaths meat.
Why do they smoke their deaths' meat?
Malagasy people open their family crypt in a certain time frame.
Why do they open the crypts only every seven years?
Virtues the ritual represented.
How the ritual represented the womanly sacrifice and devotion?
Tradition associated with the decomposed bodies.
Why did they rubbed the liquid from the decomposed bodies on the children?
Transformation in mummy.
How did the monks stayed in a room meditating until their bodies stopped breathing and all the organs' shrinking?
The act which ends the smoking process.
Why do they think smearing the smoke on their relatives skin's helpful?
The celebrations which follow the dead exhumation.
Why do the people dance and sacrifice animals in honor of their dead?
Thing happened to the Sati tradition.
When did the Sati ritual become illegal in India?
Goals of the rubbing.
In which way the rubbing process transmitted qualities and good attributes from the dead to the children?
Preservation of the mummy.
How did the monk's body after his death stay in the same position, with skin and teeth preserved?
Reason why it is important to smear the smoke in the relatives' skin.
How, do they think the smoke can transfer the strength of the dead to the living?
The celebration has some precise purposes.
How can the ritual make people understand the importance of love and kinship?
Reason which make the women sacrifice themselves in honor of their dead husband.
How could the Hindu people force the women to get burnt with their husbands?
Destiny of the bones of the body.
Why was it necessary to display the bones in caves or around the family's necks as a keepsake of the deceased?