The son or adopted son of the deceased kneels before the highpriest, and promises due performance of all the religious duties and obsequies to the dead.
The periodical performance of the commemorative rite of obsequies called Sraddha - i.e.
When they had performed the funeral obsequies, Al-Hasan arraigned the assassin before him.
The obsequies took place on Sept.
The obsequies of Achilles, as described in the Odyssey, were also celebrated with details which are strikingly similar to those observed in tumuli both of the Bronze and Iron Ages.