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Something of a deity to the local villages, she hoards the souls of the dead. Worshippers bring offerings of soul jars and funerary objects to her mountain lair, where she watches over them.⁠

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Ammit is a funerary deity, her titles included "Devourer of the Dead" and "Eater of Hearts".

She's cute but that is one ugly mf...

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This Madonna and Child, painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1621, was commissioned to be part of the funerary monument of Anne Antheunis and her recently deceased husband - featuring portraits of them both offering thanks to Mary.

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At tomorrow's *free* Sunday, you'll have two curator-led tours to choose from! At 12pm, take an hourlong tour of "Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment." At 2pm, a half hour talk will explore Roman Egyptian funerary portraits. https://t.co/14hsSX7Whr

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At this weekend's *free* Sunday, you'll have two tours to choose from! At 12pm, take an hourlong tour of "Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment." At 2pm, a half hour talk will explore Roman Egyptian funerary portraits. https://t.co/14hsSX7Whr

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"A gentle funerary and river goddess, Nephthys strives to lend her aid to those in need. Her compassion and empathy can result in placing others before herself, and due to past events, she struggles to balance her divine loyalties with her heartfelt desire to make things right."

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Instead, royal funerary rites were more similar to those described in the Illiad:
A King/Queen's death was followed by funerary rites lasting 2 weeks, involving libations, sacrifice of oxen, and food offerings and a great pyre in the evening.

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There can be few more haunting and splendid funerary traditions than the Greco-Roman/Egyptian fusion that is the 1st-3rd century encaustic mummy portrait. In my Second Age moments I often imagine the patrician Númenórean families venerating their dead in similar fashion

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Have to mention the nail boat for
Naglfar is a battleship to be made of the dead's nail clippings (why Norse funerary rites included trimming the nails as to not provide building material). The ship's completion with Loki as captain is one sign of the end times.

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The Ibibo Funerary Mask Cultural heritage of the Ibibo people
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The ibibio funerary mask is a very large mask carring a coffin on its head in addition to a number of figures some human some bird-like an ancestral spirit image.

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a man you can trust for your funerary needs ⚰️✨
(+ ty to for this piece)

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"Funerary Nymphs" by Maximilian Pirner (1888).

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Looks like Anubis' funerary boat...

They headed to the Field of Reeds, aka Aaru, aka Celestial Heliopolis?!

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐤

The face is covered by a mask sculpted and painted by the author himself.
The use of a mask recalls ancient people funerary traditions and confers "inconceivability" to the features of the entity that holds the threads of lives.

https://t.co/c0MZWVirYK

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐤

The face is covered by a mask sculpted and painted by the author himself.
The use of a mask recalls ancient people funerary traditions and confers "inconceivability" to the features of the entity that holds the threads of lives.

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For its Japanese meaning, during the Edo period, samurai’s disliked tsubakis because, when they fell, the calyx and the petals fell together. Thus it represented death and decapitation, which was considered bad omen for war.
They were used as funerary flowers as well

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This reconstruction depicts one of our more striking finds from London: a female stone head, probably a sphinx, from a pit. Sphinxes in mythology were guardians of the dead and it's likely that this sculpture once belonged to a funerary monument.

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Beautiful funerary portrait of a woman who lived and died in Roman Egypt c.150 AD. She has been painted in pigments mixed with melted wax but her jewellery has been gilded providing a striking effect. She wears gold and pearl earrings and a pendant necklace set with a Roman coin.

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