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Today's Topic – So let's go really deep into death rites and rituals, let's go to ancient Rome
The ancient Roman's have always interested me, so I choose the first look at a specific culture's death rite would be that of Rome. So Join Michael and me today as we look at a real-world cultures death rite for fantasy worldbuilding inspiration.
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Podcast Show Flow
- How to use this episode
- Why? To prevent the dead from rising up and going rogue
- Preparing the body
- Last Kiss
- Placed on the ground, like at birth
- Purified and anoited, possible embalming
- coins placed in the mouth or other mystery religion add-ons could happen
- Dressed, based on the status
- Lay in state
- Procession with masks of the fallen
- Eulogy – talks about the noble deeds
- Sacrifices
- Burned
- Epitaphs
- “I did not exist, I have existed, I do not exist, I feel no desire,”
- 9th-day feast
- Other holidays for the dead
- The Roman Funeral
- Roman funerary practices
Worldbuilding Task
Create a death Ritual
Real-world Task
Create an elfen submarine
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