Word: tumulus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honored, who bore the coffin to the special funeral railway station, and placed it on the funeral car. . . . At dawn, the Emperor was entombed in a cement vault set into a hill overlooking Fujiyama, beloved and sacred mountain of Japan. Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault; and since no human foot is allowed to tread above an Emperor, the workmen had to be "purified" by a peculiar rite. After this rite they become officially "no longer men, but white winged birds which fly with earth and sand in their beaks" to complete...
...Linton, N. D., swellings and a bulge in the earth were identified by inhabitants as the first traces of Mound Builders to be discovered in their state. A tumulus seemed to be the temple mound, and two serpentine ridges- 400 and 600 feet long, containing human bones-the burial mounds, of a settlement beside Beaver Creek that had crossed that stream for its rites of lustration before human sacrifices and burials. The effigies were much like the largest serpent mounds yet discovered (in Ohio...