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Fun.History Q3
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anima | Roman word for soul or life-force |
| Anubis | the jackel-headed Egyptian god of embalming |
| Ba | the Egyptian "soul" or spiritual coutnerpart of the body; could leave the tomb but had to return at night |
| Barber-Surgeons | a powerful organization of medieval health-care professoinals who sought a monopoly on the right to embalm |
| Catacombs | long underground tunnerls used by the pagan Romasn for burial and by the early Christians for burial and for worship during times of persecution |
| Ceberus | three-headed, wild dog who guarded the way to hades |
| Cemeterium | burial ground (from the Greeek "sleeping place" |
| Cere Cloth | a waxed linen sheet used a shroud |
| Charnel House | a building holding the exhumed bones of bodies previously buried |
| Charon | the boatman who ferried souls to hades for a price |
| Colubarium | a wall-like structure with niches provided for the entombment of cremains (from the Latin "Dove-cote" |
| Conclamantes mortis | in Roman funeral pratice, hired female mourners |
| Designator | Roman assistant to the libitudinarius |
| Dionysus , Cult of | form of Greek religion; memebers believed in a happy immortality |
| Elysian Fields | the Greek term for paradise |
| Epicurians | a Greek and Roman school of philosophy whose memebers believed that both the soul and the body disintegrated after death |
| Funerales | torchbearers in a Roman funeral procession |
| Funeralis | Roman term for a torch-lit procession, from which comes our word "funeral" |
| Funus | Roman term for funeral rites |
| Hypogea | Eqyptian " rock-cut" tombs cut directly into or under cliffs (from the Greek "under the earth") |
| Ka | the Egyptian vital life force which generally resided in a ka-statue after death |
| Kher-heb | the Egyptian priest who took charge of the body and supervised the embalming |
| Kiones | round columns used in Greece to commemorate the dead |
| Kofinos | Greek word for "basket", from which comes the English word " coffin" |
| Libitudinaruis | Roman head undertaker and direct ancestor of today's professional funeral director |
| Libitina | Roman protector-goodness of human remains and funerals |
| Maat | ancient Egyptian concept of justice and "the way things ought to be" |
| Mastaba | a kind of Egyptian tomb, rectangular in shape with sloping sides and a flat roof, covering a shaft leading to an underground burial chamber |
| Naidia | Greek tombs built to llok like miniature temples |
| Natron | mizture of naturally-occuring salts used by the Egyptians to dehydrate bodies during the mummification process |
| Necropolis | term used by archeologists for ancient cemeteries, especially Egyptian ( from Gk. "city of the dead" |
| Obol | the Greek coin placed in the mouth of the deceased to pay Charon, the ferryman of the river Styx |
| Ossuary | a container of bones |
| Pollinctor | in ancient Rome, a low-status employee or slave who performed whatever primitive embalming may have been done |
| Praeco | in ancient Rome , the person who annoucned aloud on the streets the death of an individual and/or the approach of the funeral procession |
| Ra | Egyptian god of the sun |
| Requiem Mass | in early Christain practice, a religious service held for the repose of the soul of the deceased, often with the body present( from Latin requlies, rest or repose |
| Sarcophagus | a carved stone outer container protecting a coffin and the mummy within; direct ancestor of today's comcrete burial vault (from Gk. "flesh eater") |
| Saff tomb | a kind of Egpytian tomb consisting of a row of small. swuare tomb chambers surrounding an open courtyard |
| Sepulcher | a free-standing tomb structure (from Latin sepelire, to cover or bury |
| Sexton | medieval Chruch official in charge of the physical upkeep pf the chruch building and the churchyard and who assumed some of the undertaker's duites |
| Sheol | in anicent hebrew belief, the abode of the dead |
| Stelae | tall, rectangular stone shafts decorated with inscriptions and bas-reliefs and used as grave markers in ancient Greece |
| Styx | one of the rivers boundaries of hades , the Greek abode of the dead |
| Sumptuary Law | a law that limits the amount of money that can be spent on a funeral or on items considered to be luxuries |
| Tartarus | the anicent Greek version of Hell |
| Trapezae | square-cut ancient Greek tombs |
| Ushabtis | small statues of servants entombed with Egyptians mummies |
| Valhol(valhalla) | in Scandinavian (Viking) beliefs, the abode of the dead who died bravely in battle or after a successful life as a warrior |
| Wabt | the Egptian place of embalming ; direct ancester of the preparation room |
| Yakhu(Akhu) | in Egypatian belief. that part od the person which upon death became part of the starry constellations of the night sky and therefore, part of the universe |
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