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The end of the ceremony was signaled by a lively Jinks Band rendition of There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, [10] and the club members sat down to a late dinner and revelry. [11] From 1913, the Cremation of Care was disengaged from the Grove Play, and rescheduled for the first night of the summer encampment. [1]
The ceremony takes place in front of the Owl Shrine. The moss- and lichen-covered statue simulates a natural rock formation, yet holds electrical and audio equipment within it. For many years, a recording of the voice of club member Walter Cronkite was used as the voice of The Owl during the ceremony.
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
He designed the Owl Shrine, a 40-foot high hollow concrete and steel structure which was built in the 1920s to have the appearance of a natural rock outcropping which happened to resemble an owl. [1] The Owl Shrine became the centerpiece of the Cremation of Care ceremony at the Bohemian Grove in 1929.
The dead adult's body is carried to the cremation ground near a river or water, by family and friends, and placed on a pyre with feet facing north. [ 4 ] The eldest son, or a male mourner, or a priest – called the lead cremator or lead mourner – then bathes himself, and his hair is cut leaving only one strand of hair called the shikha ...
Cremation is the preferred method of disposal, although if it is not possible any other methods or if the person willed to be buried then burial or submergence at sea are acceptable. A memorial to the dead, gravestone , mausoleum etc. is not allowed, because the body is considered to be only the shell, the person's soul was their real essence.
Funeral monuments from the Kerameikos cemetery at Athens. After 1100 BC, Greeks began to bury their dead in individual graves rather than group tombs. Athens, however, was a major exception; the Athenians normally cremated their dead and placed their ashes in an urn. [4]
The fact that the ceremony exists is not in dispute; the problem is presenting it in a non-sensationalist, factual and neutral way without injecting POV. There is still a problem, for example, with the "apparently occultic" characterization of the ceremony. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 03:51, 8 September 2005 (UTC)