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Grave
(555 words)
[German Version] The word grave (OE
graef) refers to a special place for receiving the dead. A cavity dug for the purpose or a natural depression can receive the corpse or, in the case of a two-staged burial, remnants of cremation or exposure. Graves serve as a long-term repository for the dead. Deliberate care for the dead witnesses to a dimension beyond life as a constituent of transcendental orientations. The oldest known grave is dated to 100,000 years ago (Qafzeh, Israel) and attributed to
Homo sapiens; evidence suggests that
Homo neanderthalensis began to bury their dead ritual…
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Religion Past and Present
Mausoleum
(431 words)
[German Version] (Gk μαυσωλῖον/
mausōleíon, Lat.
mausoleum) originally referred to the sumptuous burial complex of the Carian ruler Mausolus (reign: 377–353 bce), a satrap of the Persian Great King, in the middle of his capital Halicarnassus. The roughly 50 m high funerary structure, which was completed by his wife Artemisia, is documented by Pliny the Elder and Vitruvius, as well as by British excavations undertaken in 1856, and is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The mausoleum was destroyed by an earthquake …
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Religion Past and Present
Graveyard/Cemetery
(2,341 words)
[German Version] I. History – II. Graveyard/Cemetery Art – III. Practical Theology – IV. Judaism – V. Islam
I. History The early Christians called their burial sites
coemeteria (cemetery, Fr.
cimetière, Ital.
cimietiero; Burial: V). In the Middle Ages, the churchyard was commonly used for burials; in the 16th and 17th centuries, a burial site outside the city or town was often called “God's acre.” Temporary plague cemeteries were already established in the 14th century. Only after the Reformation, how-¶ ever, were general burial sites established in great numbers. Alon…
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Religion Past and Present