Opis: A History of Mourning (Classic Reprint) - Davey Richard

Excerpt from A History of Mourning

Although tradition has not informed us whether our first parents made any change in their scanty garments on the death of their near relatives, it is certain that the fashion of wearing mourning and the institution of funereal ceremonies and rites are of the most remote antiquity. Herodotus tells us that the Egyptians over 3,000 years ago selected yellow as the colour which denoted that a kinsman was lately deceased. They, moreover, shaved their eyebrows when a relative died; but the death of a dog or a cat, regarded as divinities by this curious people, was a matter of much great important to them, for then they not only shaved their eyebrows, but every hair on their bodies was plucked out; and doubtless this explains the reason why so many elaborate wigs are to be seen in the various museums devoted to Egyptian antiquities. It would require a volume to give an idea of the singular funeral ceremonials of this people, with whom death was regarded, so to spoke, as a "speciality;" for their religion was mainly devoted to the cultus of the departed, and consequently innumerable monumental tombs still exits all over Egypt, the majority of which are full of mummies, whose painted cases are most artistic.

The cat was worshipped as a divinity by the Egyptians.

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Szczegóły: A History of Mourning (Classic Reprint) - Davey Richard

Nazwa: A History of Mourning (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Davey Richard
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330388532
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 118
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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