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<div class{{DISPLAYTITLE: Funeral Rites in the Basque Country}} {{#bookTitle:Funeral Rites in the Basque Country | Ritos_funerarios_en_vasconia/en}} ==[landing]== ===[ritos|Funeral Rites in the Basque Country|/atlas/ritos.png|Cultural issues surrounding death as a rite of passage, including death omens, death throes and ritual practices after death.]=======[Ritos_funerarios_en_vasconia | Funeral Rites in the Basque Country]==== ===="mw[/atlas/ritos/Camino-al-cementerio-translate1950-fuzzy">Izurdiaga.jpg|On the way to the cemetery, c. 1950. Izurdiaga (N). Source: Carmen Jusué, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Dying on a rainy day or if it rained after the death showed that the soul would be saved: ''gorputz ona, euritsu''.|]==== <div align="center"><div class="special==[/atlas/ritos/Amortajamiento-con-traje-links"><div classfestivo-Amezketa-1959.jpg|Shroud in a suit. Amezketa (G), 1959. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|A small group of neighbours would watch over the corpse in turns during the night and make sure that the light burning next to it did not go out.|]==== ===="presentation">[/atlas/ritos/Portadores-del-feretro-jasotzaileak-Amezketa.jpg|Coffin bearers. Amezketa (G). Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Death was an event that usually occurred in the neighbourhood, a fact that meant the home of the deceased played a leading role.|]==== ====[Presentacion_Ritos_funerarios_en_vasconia/enatlas/ritos/Adornando-las-sepulturas-para-el-dia-de-Todos-los-Santos-Bilbao-1990.jpg|Caring for the graves on the occasion of All Saints’ Day. Bilbao (B), 1990. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.|Omens of death included those associated with strange behaviour by some domestic animals, mainly dogs and cockerels.||Presentation]]==== ====[/atlas/ritos/Santa-Grazi.jpg|Santa-Grazi (Z). Source: Boissel, W. Le Pays Basque. Sites, Arts et Coutumes. Paris, A. Calavas edit.|Cuando el cárabo canta, la muerte levanta. <br /div> <div class''When the tawny owl hoots, death wakes up.''||]==== ===="index">[[Indice_Ritos_funerarios_en_vasconia/atlas/ritos/Sepulturas-en-la-nave-de-la-iglesia-Amezketa-1990.jpg|Table Symbolic graves in church. Amezketa (G), 1990. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Each homestead used to have a burial site inside the church’s nave. When burials were transferred to cemeteries, the once real burial site in church became a symbolic family grave, were offerings of contentslight and bread were made to their dead.||]==== ====[/atlas/ritos/Toque-de-campana-anunciando-la-muerte-Beasain.jpg|Death knell. Beasain (G). Source: José Zufiaurre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Tolling the bell was a very effective way of announcing the death in rural settlements.||]<==== ====[/atlas/ritos/div> <div classCortejo-funebre-1925.jpg|Funeral cortège, c. 1925. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|There were specific paths to carry the corpse from the house of the deceased to the church and the cemetery.||]==== ===="data">[/atlas/ritos/Mujeres-con-ofrendas-Otxagabia-1920.jpg|Offering bearers. Otsagabia (N), c. 1920. Source: Fco. Javier Zubiaur and M.ª Amor Beguiristain’s private archive: Roldán and Calle Photographic Studios.|The members of the funeral cortege, relatives of the deceased and neighbours alike, would usually carry offerings of bread and light.||]==== ====[Interes_Ritos_funerarios_en_vasconia/enatlas/ritos/Ofrenda-de-luces-Amezketa.jpg|Light offerings. Amezketa (G). Source: Garmendia Larrañaga, Juan. Neguko Festak. Donostia, 1993, J. Juanes Photographic Archive.|Light offerings would light up the way for the soul of the deceased. And bread would sustain it.||Authorship and knowledgeable data]==== ====[/atlas/ritos/Duelo-femenino-Sara.jpg|Mourners. Sara (L). Source: Veyrin, Philippe. Pays Basques de France et d’Espagne. Paris-Grenoble, 1951.|Sorrow was expressed by wearing mourning.||]==== ====[/atlas/ritos/Anuncio-de-la-muerte-a-las-abejas.jpg|Telling the bees. Source: ''Gure Herria''.|Erletxuak, erletxuak, <br /div>egizute argizaria, <br /div>nagusia hil da-ta, <br />behar da elizan argia. <br /><br />''Ritual formula to inform the bees of their keeper’s death''||]==== ====[/atlas/ritos/Amortajamiento-de-un-nino-Durango.jpg|Infant shroud. Durango (B). Source: Gerediaga Association Archive: Germán Photographic Studio.|Jaiotzetik heriotza zor. <br /div>''When you begin to live, you being to die.''||]==== ====[/atlas/ritos/Pipaon-1990.jpg|Pipaón (A), 1990. Source: Pilar Alonso, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Hildakoari hobia eta biziari ogia. <br />''The dead to the grave and the living to the roll.''||]==== ====[File/atlas/ritos/Hilarriak-Irulegi.jpg|Funerary stelae. Irulegi (NB). Source:RITOS_FUNERARIOS_PORTADAMichel Duvert, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Oilarrak gauez kukurruku jotzen badu, laster izango da gorpuren bat etxe hartan. <br />''A cockerel crowing at sunset, death is looming.''||]==== ==[related]== ===Outstanding contents=======[/images/thumb/8/89/7.86_Salida_de_la_casa_mortuoria._Bera_(N)_1995.jpg/1200px-7.86_Salida_de_la_casa_mortuoria._Bera_(N)_1995.jpg|centerFuneral Rites in the Basque Country|Omens of death|650px[[PRESAGIOS_DE_MUERTE._HERIOTZAREN_ZANTZUAK/en]] {{DISPLAYTITLE: ]========[/images/thumb/a/ad/7.33_La_muerte_del_justo._Litografia_belga_del_s._XIX_procedente_de_un_caserio_de_Ibarruri_(B).jpg/1200px-7.33_La_muerte_del_justo._Litografia_belga_del_s._XIX_procedente_de_un_caserio_de_Ibarruri_(B).jpg|Funeral Rites in the Basque Country}} {{#bookTitle:|Beliefs about the soul’s destiny|[[CREENCIAS_SOBRE_EL_DESTINO_DEL_ALMA/en]]]========[/images/thumb/a/a5/7.84_Conduccion_del_cadaver_por_el_camino_mortuorio_gorpuzbidea._Orexa_(G)._(Representacion).jpg/1200px-7.84_Conduccion_del_cadaver_por_el_camino_mortuorio_gorpuzbidea._Orexa_(G)._(Representacion).jpg|Funeral Rites in the Basque Country | Ritos_funerarios_en_vasconiaCorpse ways|[[CAMINOS_MORTUORIOS._HILBIDEAK/en}}]]]====<====[/images/thumb/b/bf/7.259_Antiguo_cementerio_de_Jatsu_(L).jpg/1068px-7.259_Antiguo_cementerio_de_Jatsu_(L).jpg|Funeral Rites in the Basque Country|Apparitions and wandering spirits|[[APARECIDOS_Y_ANIMAS_ERRANTES._ARIMA_HERRATUAK/div>en]]]====
