Burial - Blog Posts

Sean bienvenidos japonistasarqueológicos, ha una noticia arqueológica nipona en esta ocasión nos trasladamos a la protohistoria nipona y para ser más precisos al periodo Kofun(こふんじだい) 250 al 592 d.c finales de siglo VI para ser más exactos, dicho esto pónganse cómodos que empezamos. - Se ha descubierto un grupo de tumbas con túneles subterráneos que datan de la primera mitad del Medio Kofun Miyakonojo Aihara, localizados en la ciudad de Miyakonojo, prefectura de Miyazaki. Muchos de ellos tienen las cámaras funerarias en donde se consagran los cadáveres, pero uno de los 22 que se encontraron tenía una forma inusual, ya que una piedra bloqueaba el medio del hoyo horizontal. - Las paredes están pintadas con tinte rojo y otra con dos fosas que conducían a la misma cámara funeraria. Las tumbas subterráneas de entrada horizontal, que se descubrieron en la ciudad de Ebino alrededor del siglo IV ya que era lo que se creía anteriormente, pero ahora es posible que muchas de ellas las estuvieran construyendo al mismo tiempo. - El segundo sondeo que se realizó en mayo del año pasado 2022, se habían excavado aproximadamente unos 4.200 metros cuadrados. También se encontraron unos artículos funerarios como: espadas de hierro y puntas de flecha en la cámara funeraria y en las fosas. El suelo se rellenará a partir de enero del próximo año y se completará un informe a finales del año fiscal 2023. - 日本の考古学者の皆さん、今回は日本の原始時代、正確には6世紀末の古墳時代（西暦250年〜592年）に話を移します。 - 宮崎県都城市にある古墳時代中期前半の地下トンネルを持つ古墳群「都城相原」が発見された。その多くは死体を安置する埋葬室を備えているが、発見された22基のうち1基は、横穴の真ん中を石が塞いでいるという珍しい形をしていた。 - 壁には赤い染料が塗られ、もうひとつには同じ埋葬室につながる2つの穴がある。えびの市で発見された横穴式地下古墳は、従来考えられていたように4世紀頃に発見されたが、現在では多くの古墳が同時期に造られていた可能性がある。 - 昨年5月に行われた第2回目の調査では、約4,200平方メートルを発掘していました。また、鉄剣や矢じりなどの墓誌類も埋葬室や穴から発見された。来年1月から土壌の埋め戻しを行い、2023年度中に報告書を完成させる予定です。 - Welcome Japanese archaeologists, this time we move to the Japanese protohistory and to be more precise to the Kofun period(こふんじだい) 250 to 592 AD at the end of the 6th century to be more exact, that said make yourselves comfortable and let's start. - A group of tombs with underground tunnels dating back to the first half of the Middle Kofun Miyakonojo Aihara, located in Miyakonojo City, Miyazaki Prefecture, have been discovered. Many of them have the burial chambers where corpses are enshrined, but one of the 22 that were found had an unusual shape, with a stone blocking the middle of the horizontal hole. - The walls are painted with red dye and another with two pits leading to the same burial chamber. Underground tombs with a horizontal entrance, which were discovered in the city of Ebino around the 4th century as it was previously believed, but it is now possible that many of them were being built at the same time. - The second survey, which was carried out in May last year 2022, had excavated approximately 4,200 square metres. Some grave goods such as iron swords and arrowheads were also found in the burial chamber and in the pits. The soil will be backfilled from January next year and a report will be completed by the end of fiscal year 2023.

After Indian Mystic Poet Kabir Das

Kabir walked after death,

Walked his own body to a grave.

Flowers bloomed and plucked themselves

Out of their homes,

Placed themselves in the middle

Of life and a walk to the grave

To let a man leave in peace.

Kashi born,

He walked with the conviction

He had in his knowledge,

Challenged the Orthodoxes,

Challenged the convention;

Kashi born guaranteed a place in heavens

He gave it all up,

Got himself cremated and burried at the same time,

Got himself fights throughout life

And even afterwards,

Got himself a piece of satisfaction,

Got himself legends and disciples

And angry purohits,

Got a piece of logic and equality of castes

When there were no such words

And Brahmins were gods.

Man dead already,

Looked at his funerals,

Looked at the burial

And felt his head turn towards Meccah,

Could hear the verses ring in his ears

As the soil washed over the lack of his body:

"We created you from it,

And return you into it,

And from it we will raise you a second time";

Looked at the cremation

And felt his soul return to the gods

As they proceeded with the Antim Sanskaar, chanted:

"When thou hast made him ready,

All possessing Fire,

Then do thou give him over to the Fathers,

When he attains unto the life that waits him,

He shall become subject to the will of gods".

Day 14: Tree

Inspired by the concept of burial pods

A sketch of a nearby barrow. There is a children’s graveyard associated with it (the small stones you see); since stillborn or unbaptized children could not be buried on hallowed ground, in a proper cemetery, people in Ireland in 18-19 centuries buried their stillborn and unbaptized babies themselves. Such improvised unofficial graveyards were normally located in church ruins, on ring forts or on barrows, that is, in spaces that were vernacularly considered sacred / liminal.

This one has a very peaceful vibe in life. I like to think that whoever lies there looks after these children ‘entrusted’ to them.

Was It A Mistake?

Was it a mistake,

When I left you for good?

When I packed the means for fire,

And hauled the timberwood?

Was it a mistake,

When I held you so closely?

When I raised the stakes,

All for some money?

Was it a mistake,

When I sung you farewells,

Only to come back,

And dig deeper than a well,

Into the fresh Earth,

And near it I mourned,

Was it a mistake,

When I buried you beneath the dirt?

all of those funeral options like the tree pod or mushroom shroud or urn with seeds that "feeds" the tree are uhhhh, bullshit. unfortunately. if you want to be a tree when you die, be buried in the ground without a francy casket or embalming, and have a tree planted above you. this is the same thing as any of these hypothetical "tree pods" but it's skipping the scammy cash grab companies trying to capitalize on grief with fake ass science.

cremated remains will not "feed" anything, either. they'll probably impede growth, tbh. cremated remains are non-organic. what's left over after a cremation is hollow, dry, brittle bone fragments that someone like me sweeps up and puts in a big metal blender to create the smooth "ashes" one expects. By all means, go ahead and scatter ashes in nature, but don't expect anything to grow from them.

If you want your body to return to nature after death, go for a green burial or an at-sea burial. there are many dedicated green burial sites in the world, and one also has the option of simply being buried in a more traditional cemetery that allows for simple wicker caskets w/o a vault around them, and the body left unembalmed. If the tree thing is really your jam, go for burial in a dedicated green cemetery that allows your family to plant a sapling above you, or if it is available where you live have your body composted and use the soil to grow plants.

tldr; there are options for green funerals out there, and options for "becoming a tree," but I would not recommend going anywhere near products offering this such as tree pods, etc. as they are expensive scams preying on people's grief for their dumb start up. get composted or green buried 💚🌲 source: I'm a mortuary scientist and provider of both traditional funerals/cremations & green burial/at-sea burial.