Word: tombs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Twenty-three Harvard men accompanied the First Corps of Cadets to New York, where the corps participated in the ceremonies at Grant's tomb...
Down to the middle of the second century of our era it was the popular belief that the real life of the dead was in the tomb. Offerings were conveyed thither by pouring blood through a hole in the top of the tomb. Thus also the the dead were supplied with food and drink, and even with clothing...
...outset there were two incongruous conceptions about the state of the dead. One was that they were powerful. This belief brought with it a corresponding cultus of the dead. On the other hand was the conception of the dead as "the weak," or "languid." The idea of the tomb in which the members of a family were buried, grew to the larger idea of sheol or the underworld, a place of dark, gloomy depths. Several passages in the Bible indicate the belief that earthly distinctions were carried into the other world...
...life after death was conceived under two forms; life in the tomb, and life in another world. The body was supposed to live in the tomb. The body had its double, called the ka, which had the human form. Next came the ba, or soul; and lastly the ku, or "luminous." These really represent the amalgamation of different sets of ideas...
...body was provided for while in the tomb. Food was left for its subsistence. It was believed that the double would continue only while the body lived. For this reason great care was taken in embalming the body and in the construction of the tomb. It was thought possible to increase the chance of the continuance of the double by placing in the tomb statues of the dead. Then arose the practice of covering the walls with representations of offerings of food, with magic formulae for transforming these representations into food...