Friend: “Did mourners wear black in late medieval England?”
Me, who was waited ages for someone to ask this so I could whip out the illuminations Richard II’s funerary procession:

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Follow the
order

that they once had

their coarse lines
of hardened clay
so that then
it’s possible to see

on the table
engraved

on the funerary
vessels

the message
that was there

without your hearing
of it

until you found it

—Yolanda Pantin

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Tomos

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Ancient Egyptians considered the fragrances to be the sweat of the sun god Ra. They used fragrance in rituals, ceremonies and funerary contexts, and wore scents in unguent cones, or wax hats that dripped oil into the hair. Ancient Egyptian perfumes were thick, like olive oil.

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Hi I'm a illustrator and I love telling stories with pictures. I also love earl grey tea, mollusc shells, and funerary archaeology of early medieval England.
🌍 https://t.co/TTOteVu3SY
✉️sianj.me

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Naglfar, a ship fated to sail during Norse end times, was to to be built entirely from the finger/toe nails of corpses. To deprive the otherworld of materials & delay the ship's construction, funerary tasks often included trimming the nails of loved ones.

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cw:death I mentioned this a while ago, but people familiar with memento mori and memorial portraits, if you're a creep like me and want... your character/a character you love in that style... please hit me up? It's something I really enjoy doing.

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Studies for Silong and Arjin, two more warrior-tier dragons.

As in previous posts, the dragons all represent phenomena and/or calamity.

Silong is funerary, the quiet of death shrouded in silk.

Arjin is a vulture in the skin of a lion, the gold of summer turned to drought.

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While I was at it, I figured I would tinker with some scribbles of my dear little Death Knight.
Rolled her launch day in wrath, She's a weird Lil Concept.
She's a Former Funerary Priestess, caught on the battlefield laying Rangers to rest during the scourge March.

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Last RT: I've never seen building-shaped Haniwa before, but they sort of remind me of a cross between Han funerary sculptures (top row) and the sorts of houses you might find in, say, Nias (bottom row).

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COZOL is a futa ahuaque (water She is a demigod funerary of the water, owner of the shrimp, granddaughter of Tlaltecutli.

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A piece I did for my 4th year final show!

"Funerary Rite"
Watercolours and Micron Liners

2020

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Funerary Bride: Shirley SR Skin

Might have time to complete one more before the event period ends.
୧(^ 〰 ^)୨

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My first Portrait of Ammonios, a fragment of a funerary shroud painted by an unknown artist in Roman Egypt (30 BC - AD 392)

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It’s the thursday One day late, but here’s the Portrait of Ammonios, a fragment of a funerary shroud painted by an unknown artist in Roman Egypt (30BC - AD 392) ⁦

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Thursday From a portrait of Ammonios, a fragment of a funerary shroud painted by an unknown artist in Roman Egypt (30 BC - AD 392)

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Thursday Portrait of Ammonios, a fragment of a funerary shroud painted by an unknown artist in Roman Egypt (30 BC - AD 392) https://t.co/AzKfwVbFqe

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Naglfar, a ship fated to sail during Norse end times, was to to be built entirely from the finger/toe nails of corpses. To deprive the otherworld of materials & delay the ships construction, funerary tasks often included trimming the nails of loved ones.

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Here's another! Tōhaku-kun is a mascot for the Tokyo National Museum. He is a type of haniwa, or funerary clay figures that were arranged on large mounded tombs of the protohistoric Kofun period (3rd-6th/7th cent). His type is known as dancing haniwa~

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Unfairly called villain, the banshee? She’s a harbinger of death but reminiscent of old Irish funerary processions which included paid mourners to wail/shriek, doesn’t she also mourn death? Why is she always depicted so frightful?

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