It is a historical diagnosis of Auguste Comte, according to which
society throughout history, tradition and memory consists of a larger number of dead
but of the living.
Tomb is the passport, which legitimizes the buried life (Morin).
Death is certainly ecumenical (meaning: universal).
Most people gave away the "honor
and a great
respect for deceased fathers, who lie to the hearth, or elsewhere, not
away from the front door "(Nodilo).
Because - as a civilization
archaic, they will say - "as the living space of the living narrower"
to the dead are more alive nearby.
Edgar Morin suggests
reconciliation of conflicting desires of the living: on the one hand, trying to keep the dead
by my side "because that would not be angry and to
protect them", and in the other hand,
try to avoid his presence. Both conflicting desires of living occurred
already in prehistoric times, as evidenced graves were found beneath the cave
habitat, on the one hand and the necropolis, on the other side.
The oldest graves in this region date from the Neolithic and
belong Starčevo impressoceramic culture. This is an
individual skeletal burials in the village, which is held even
during the Copper Age, but as a novelty introduced the ritual of burning and
organization of the cemetery outside of the village. It is interesting that in parallel with the ritual
burning occurs the transgression of the necropolis of the village.
In the Early Neolithic settlements Starčevo culture (southpanonic spaces)
the deceased were buried within the settlement in the burrows and pits, and
from the late neolithic cultures in separate cemeteries outside
settlement of the living. Agrarian (farming) community early
neolithic especially worshiped the Earth as a (first) mother, and death is considered
continuation of life that the deceased returns to Mother Earth, laid on its side in
fetus sleeping position, or perhaps as
fetus ginekomorfologic symbolic of Mother Earth,
entering the regression to the embryonic state before birth.
(excerpt from the book Narodna umjetnost, 2000, S. Marjanić, Vatra kao domovina smrti u Nodilovoj...)
Nevertheless, the custom of decorating and maintenance of the resting place for thousands of years,
only in modern times, sometimes demands of modern life leave no room for everyone
to adequately do what they want for those who are not harvested here.
There appears need for this form of assistance, as we can provide.
Respecting the wishes of the needy we do all acts that make the memories of dignity.
As the first Slavic graves in the second half of the first millennium "
appear mogili the incinerated dead (Ash)", or as the bunch with
no cup or small bowl. Nodilo
believes that both Serbs and Croats accepted the burial of dead bodies after
removals from the old habitat and after christianization the first of the Slavs "at least called" the
roman burial customs embraced burial in the ground. Like Nodilo Niederle
believes that the burial the Slavs embraced after
christianization, and it was not immediately made, as was created biritual
archaeological time, but also believes that the inhumation in Slavs
before christianisation (for example, the Dnieper, the Danube and the Baltic),
under the Avar and Roman, Byzantine and Frankish influences - most affected by the ban
capitulary Charlemagne from the 785th year, but
final and true victory of the cult of the earth (the grave: womb of Mother Earth)
was achieved trough christianization.
Supporters of incineration accept the belief of continuous trucking
soul, and advocates of en
tombment develop the idea of the resurrection of the buried
body. "Bonfire was
like guarantee of the resurrection." And the verb 'krsnuti', resurrect raised according to his
originally meaning "to shine, to show up in flames".
Compared with the (old) Slavic belief according to which "the faster
disassembles the body, earlyer the second world represented itself to the soul", the christian
teaching chose "compact" body as a sign of holiness and relic
expectation of the resurrection (of course, scrambled-renewed in epiuranian
soul) purified body. As a common source
in care practices
around the body of the Serbs and Croats in Nodilo system of religion
grave appears Aryan (Indo-European) incineration, and in doing so,
of course, special emphasis on Indian burning.
Modes of burial and the appearance of a gravestone memorials or monuments are determined
by sepulcarn (from the Latin sepulcrum,
tomb) laws of the community and represent
the most intimate features of a culture. They are mostly based on religious
perceptions and understanding of the act of death and the afterlife. Other factors that
it determines are the place where one lives, the geographic and climatic conditions, and also
are important economic ability and social status.
Durkheim advocated the view that
hard surmountable thought about the disappearance suppressed ideas about life after death,
and the concept of the immortal soul as the result of understanding that is possible
individualization of a substance wich after the death is transferred to a newborn body.
Ancient people had no idea about God and the belief in immortality was
explanation of spiritual continuity.
Memory
The graves are sites that allow the memory of those who are no longer with us. A visit to the cemetery, and the memory of our ancestors is part of the tradition all over the world. Everyone want these places a nicely decorated and maintained. Sometimes, people live nearby and have a considerable amount of time and access to such act on its own initiative at a time individually chosen. In some case, it is not so, and people
are simply powerless to do all they would like. This is the moment in which a man needs help, and there we are jumping in with the will, who will do all that you simply can not.
Possibility
Unfortunately, sometimes people are, for various reasons, unable to celebrate their memories as they wanted. Feasible is, of course, let such an act to someone else. Yet, in the absence of more complete solution, it is possible to defer such a half-solution, and let the necessary arrangement of grave sites to those who have committed such something. Although we are not able to perform an act of remembrance,
we can decorate a home worthy of remembrance. Take, therefore, points to the opportunity to use our skills.