This article describes the seven most unusual funeral rituals in the world.
1. Fun at the funeral.
Residents of Donghai Province, who are in China, decided to turn a boring funeral ritual into a bright and cheerful holiday. The status of the deceased in this province is determined by the number of people who came to his funeral. So, so that more people mourning for the funeral will come to the funeral, the strippers are invited. Authorities are trying to prevent such a funeral, but to no avail.
2. A funeral loan.
For some tribes of Indonesia, funerals are also a reason for fun music and dancing, but not everyone can afford such a magnificent ritual. Therefore, the deceased is wrapped in white sheets and considered sick, and the family begins to collect money for the ritual. Sometimes the patient can lie for several months until I collect the money.
3. Mummified himself.
Choosing self-mummification a monk - a Buddhist dooms himself to death. It all starts with a diet. You can only eat nuts and fruits, along with this you need to do some physical exercises. Thus, all fat from the body is excreted. The next step is inducing vomiting in order to get rid of water in the body. Then for a thousand days, the monk eats only tree bark and roots. And at the last stage, the monk goes into a stone grave and waits for death there. If he is still alive, then he must ring the bell every day. If the call is not heard, the grave is sealed for a thousand days and the mummification process is completed.
4. Death from fasting.
Another suicidal ritual is being held in India. He is called Santhara. Having decided that life goals have been achieved and the soul is ready to cleanse itself, the believer simply starves himself.
5. Soaring coffins of China.
Soaring coffins is the legacy left by the Bo people who once lived in China. This people did not survive the onslaught of the Ming Dynasty and disappeared many years ago. Their coffins were carved from a single piece of wood. Then the coffins were placed in the crevices of sheer cliffs or hung on special supports. Scientists have several versions explaining the unusualness of this ritual. So some say that in this way no one could defile the burial. Others argue that in this way the fellow tribesmen tried to ensure an easy transition of the soul to another world (according to popular beliefs, the rocks corresponded to stairs to heaven). So the oldest coffin is 2500 years old, and the youngest is 400 years old.
6. Just about complicated.
Among the natives of Australia, more precisely, its northern part, the funeral is divided into two stages. At the first stage, the body is laid on a wooden platform and strewn with leaves. In this state, the body of the deceased is left for several months. After painting the remains with red ocher, the body is either buried in caves, or the bones are put into a hollow tree (the so-called "tube"). Then the tube or cave is painted with totem signs. Aborigines believe that with the help of this ritual, the soul will be able to walk a dangerous path into another world.
7. Fancy coffin shape.
Among the ha peoples living in Ghana, coffins can take various forms from chicken to bus. From the coffin you can easily find out who the person was during his life, or rather what he was doing. This tradition appeared due to a curious incident in 1950. The ruler who ruled the country in those years asked to make a stretcher for himself in the form of a bed and a chair, but not simple but in the form of a huge eagle, but on the day when the order was made, he suddenly died. Relatives buried him in this stretcher.
Such funeral rituals and customs are practiced now or practiced in the past. They are always carried out with one purpose in order to facilitate the path of the soul to another world.
