Historial
22 jul 2019
Página creada con «== Mourning ==»
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Página creada con «That all occurred at the homestead, thus bringing the cycle to an end.»
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Página creada con «Generally, the meal ended with a prayer, said by the master cantor or the first neighbour, or even the priest if invited. The prayer could be only dedicated to the deceased...»
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Página creada con «In Baja Navarra, as the cortege returned to the house, the people would pause by a fire lit in front of the door, where the people would stand in a circle and say a prayer....»
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Página creada con «== The homestead and the “funeral feast” ==»
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Página creada con «It seems that the oldest custom only required the first neighbour, along with the other coffin bearers (who usually would have dug the grave), to accompany the priest and b...»
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Página creada con «== The burial ==»
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Página creada con «The light offerings have already been mentioned. Subsequently, the family’s dead would be regularly and collectively remembered by masses being said, particularly those o...»
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Página creada con «The list of people and homesteads making an offering was published on the church door. In earlier times, the priest would read it from the pulpit.»
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Página creada con «This section has to first mention the trade-off between neighbours, ''ordaina''. Masses were said for the deceased; each home along with each close relative would do so. Th...»
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Página creada con «== Offerings ==»
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Página creada con «There was little variety in the funeral mass. Its most notable traits belonged to a type of “domestic” religion. They clearly appeared in the following aspects: 1) Impo...»
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Página creada con «On leaving the house, ''etxe, ''the carpenter organised the cortege, at least in Baja Navarra. On entering the church, the ''andere serora ''would meet it. The former repre...»
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Página creada con «The funeral»
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Página creada con «This theme is highly complex as it reflects local practicalities: there were rituals found throughout Zuberoa, and other very motley ones turned Baja Navarra into a patchwo...»
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Página creada con «There was great variety in this regard and which could even be found in the funeral attire and the way of wearing it. This last point was particularly obvious in the case o...»
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Página creada con «== Make up of the cortege and order ==»
Página creada con «Everybody used the corpse way, ''hil bidia'', which was the path from the house to the church.»
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Página creada con «The funeral cortege was usually in a single file, with the family following the deceased, with the men separate from the women. During the journey to the church, other mour...»
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Página creada con «The carpenter would organise the cortege as it left the house and handed out candles and flowers. The male first neighbour would usually lead the cortege, carrying the fune...»
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Página creada con «== The funeral cortege ==»
Página creada con «As the time of the funeral approached, the women neighbours would help the women to put on their heavy capes, and would help the men to fasten the mourning capes and with t...»
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Página creada con «In general, the first neighbour wife, accompanied by her husband, welcomed the visitors at the entrance to the hallway.'' ''She took the relatives to the kitchen where the...»
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Página creada con «The coffin was an aedicula made up of canvases decorated with branches. In Baja Navarra, the carpenter built in the hall,'' eskaratze'', against the main door, a small chap...»
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Página creada con «A new character – the carpenter - would then be involved and was in charge of organising the funeral in many places. He would place the deceased with the help of one of h...»
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Página creada con «== Preparing the funeral cortege ==»
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Página creada con «And finally, the announcement was echoed with the death knell tolled three times a day, at dawn, at midday and at night: ''argitzian, eguerdian, ilhuntzian''.»
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Página creada con «The first neighbour, sometimes along with the second (those neighbours are defined according to criteria that we have sought to specify), would meet with the family and dra...»
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Página creada con «The first neighbour was notified and he would, in turn, be entrusted with informing the local council and the parish priest. The nun sacristan would usually hand the first...»
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Página creada con «== The announcement ==»
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Página creada con «The corpse was washed, dressed and laid out on a bed, which was sometimes decorated. The room was prepared by covering the mirror, changing the candleholders and place sett...»
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Página creada con «Women, until relatively recently, were entrusted with the household rite, helped by the neighbours and particularly the first neighbour, ''lehen auzoa.'' Meditation, silenc...»
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Página creada con «== Family and household morning ==»
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Página creada con «The departure is that of the “soul” or of the “spirit”, ''izpiritua, arima'', which accompanies the last dying breath, ''azken hatsa''. Accordingly, a tile would so...»
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Página creada con «The presence refers to ''Herioa.'' When the grim reaper came to take the person, everyone had to be on guard and the animals would be put in the barn. That arrival could le...»
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Página creada con «It is very difficult to comment on this theme. Apart from the Christian (the will of God, ''Jainkoaren nahia)'' or fatalist (''azken arena, azken ozka...'') angle, death...»
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Página creada con «== Beliefs surrounding death ==»
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Página creada con «That care also clearly means that that the time has come for each of us to put our deepest thoughts in order and to attune with other realities. Therefore, it was a dreaded...»
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Página creada con «There is nothing original in this regard as the viaticum and extreme unction are practices defined by the Church. Both mark the start for the dying person of the time where...»
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Página creada con «== Christian care ==»
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Página creada con «Dying has led to customs that highlight the public status around the death. In principle, this is where the nun sacristan, ''andere serora,'' a key person of the traditions...»
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Página creada con «Finally, there are grounds to believe that the dead continued to be active among many of our compatriots back in “old times” in the form of errant souls, ''arima errati...»
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Página creada con «The latter are essentially of two types: 1) abnormal, incongruous events (coincidences, “mishaps” particularly at night); 2) warning signs by nature and, more specifica...»
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Página creada con «Death knocks suddenly where it is not expected, at an unforeseen moment. A type of resignation, of fate (''jin beharra'', ''gertatu beharra zen'') as if our destiny were al...»
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Página creada con «eath is the natural end to a long life. Old people would become a cause for concern for some time. The priest would visit them more often, the immediate neighbours ask abou...»
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Página creada con «== Omens and signs, dying ==»
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Página creada con «These are the three avenues that we have explored and particularly the first, namely, the state of the current funeral rite in the mountains, the lowland areas inland and t...»
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Página creada con «The coastal strip can be seen to have totally broken away from the inland area. There, death is dealt with outside the context of the home, ''etxe,'' and of the framework t...»
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Página creada con «Since the 1950s, the traditional funeral rite has undergone far-reaching changes in Iparralde (the part of the Basque Country within France) and continues to do so at an ev...»
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