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No Tombs for Hindus except some rare parts. Generally cremated in a pyre. But guess we never know how things were millennia back.
by kshacker 4y ago
No Tombs for Hindus except some rare parts. Generally cremated in a pyre. But guess we never know how things were millennia back.
- OJFord 4y agoDoesn't preclude finding a shrine of some kind though right? What (if anything) was the equivalent of garlanded photo-portraits before cameras? Sketched/painted portraits?
- nindalf 4y agoShrines only exist for deified figures. Some kings did successfully deify themselves, to the point where they are still worshipped as Gods. This king wasn’t deified. Deification of kings sounds unusual, but it was quite a common tactic of political control in the ancient world. The Roman Imperial cult was quite successful at this.
- OJFord 4y agoI only meant it loosely, in the sense of any kind of physical thing or collection of things used to represent or remember the deceased, like a photo adorned with a garland.