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	Pyre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A pyre is a structure, such as a mound of wood, for burning a body as part of a funeral rite.
		Pyres are uncommon in the Western world in modern times and have been replaced by indoor cremation in a crematorium.
		The Tradition of Sati in India Sati is the traditional Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Pyre.html (332 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Iliad by Homer
		When King Agamemnon heard this he dismissed the people to their ships, but those who were about the dead heaped up wood and built a pyre a hundred feet this way and that; then they laid the dead all sorrowfully upon the top of it.
		The dead hero had had house-dogs; two of them did Achilles slay and threw upon the pyre; he also put twelve brave sons of noble Trojans to the sword and laid them with the rest, for he was full of bitterness and fury.
		And now, sir, go on with the funeral contests in honour of your comrade: gladly do I accept this urn, and my heart rejoices that you do not forget me but are ever mindful of my goodwill towards you, and of the respect due to me from the Achaeans.
	classics.mit.edu /Homer/iliad.23.xxiii.html (6489 words)

	Boulder Weekly \| NewsandViews \| CoverStory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I attended Ricky's funeral pyre, and along with her son Scott, family friend Peter Giffin and Ricky's close friend Bryan Starry, I helped build it.
		When the pyre was prepared, just before sundown, six of us bore Ricky's bier in a solemn procession from her bedroom to the pyre.
		A funeral pyre seemed to her family and friends like the right thing to do for a woman who directed Shakespeare and immersed herself in medieval culture as Mistress Kyriel of Windhover Cliff-a respected member of the Society for Creative Anachronism.
	www.boulderweekly.com /archive/041102/waynesword.html (1183 words)

	pyre - Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell, tolling; dirge (lamentation) ; cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon; epitaph.
		Verb: inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mumify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn.
		Adjective: burried v.; burial, funereal, funebrial; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary; elegiac; necroscopic.
	www.yourthesaurus.net /pyre.html (221 words)

	Funeralcare: Home Page
		Whether you are arranging a funeral now or planning for the future - we'll do everything we can to help you remember your loved one.
		Co-operative Funeralcare have over 600 local funeral homes across the country which offer a range of services for all types of funeral.
		We also offer a range of memorial options and opportunities to plan a funeral in advance, through selecting one of our range of Funeral Pre-Payment Plans.
	www.co-operativefuneralcare.co.uk (177 words)

	Funeral Pyre of a Straw God - Vision Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wilson, author of God's Funeral, commends Armstrong's A History of God, saying, "This is the most fascinating and learned survey of the biggest wild goose chase in history--the quest for God." Armstrong herself concludes: "Human beings cannot endure emptiness and desolation; they will fill the vacuum by creating a new focus of meaning....
		If so, we may be witnessing the heaping up of the most colossal yet futile funeral pyre in history--for the burning of a straw god.
		The rise of secularism and atheism and the consequential demise of belief in God cannot be fully understood without acknowledging the impact that scientists such as J.B. Lamarck, Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin and T.H. Huxley have had on modern thinking.
	www.vision.org /jrnl/0001/funeral.html (4395 words)

	Scotsman.com News - International - Worshippers flock to funeral pyre site
		The elderly peasant woman from a remote community in northern India earlier this month became 'sati' ('a virtuous wife') after burning to death on her husband's funeral pyre.
		But sati, the ancient Hindu practice whereby a widow throws herself on her husband's burning pyre, still exerts a mystical hold in the rural heartland of northern India.
		It seems that in the case of Tiwari, the widow was herself ailing and had made a secret pact with her dying husband that she would die with him.
	news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=588062005 (470 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Outrage over India ritual burning
		The Indian government's top women's body has strongly condemned the burning of a woman on her husband's funeral pyre.
		Kuttu Bai, 65, burned to death on her husband's funeral pyre in a village in central India on Tuesday in an apparent act of Sati or ritual burning.
		Police charged Roop Kanwar's father-in-law and brother-in-law with forcing her to sit on the pyre with her husband's body, but the two men were acquitted by an Indian court in October 1996.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/2180380.stm (474 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Indians worship would-be sacrifice
		Only the timely intervention by police prevented her from sacrificing herself on her husband's funeral pyre in 1985, since when she has been revered.
		Sati, or the ancient Hindu practice of a woman immolating herself on her husband's pyre, is believed to have originated some 700 years ago among the ruling warrior community of Rajasthan.
		The temple is only a few kilometres from Deorala, a village in Sikar district where another Rajput woman, Roop Kanwar, was burnt alive on 4 September 1987 on her husband's funeral pyre.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/2183188.stm (515 words)

	AllaKhazam's Magical Realm - Your Everquest Community
		Cast on you: Your skin burns as you are caught in a funeral pyre.
		however funeral pyre is alteration, a spell spec most necros went with.
		Funeral Pyre is level 60, and therefore can be used with older world focus items i.e.
	everquest.allakhazam.com /db/spell.html?spell=2885 (1392 words)

	Scrolls of knowledge: Funeral Pyre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Locutus lay atop the pyre, his body swaddled in white linen.
		Snazzle walked towards the pyre, futilely wiping away the tears that wouldn't stop.
		Bupu raised her head and let forth a burst of flame that lit the pyre on fire.
	www.scrollsofknowledge.com /index.php?menu=232&story=618 (589 words)

	MSN Encarta - Hercules (mythology)
		Believing that Hercules had fallen in love with the princess Iole, Deianira later sent him a tunic dipped in the blood.
		When he put it on, the pain caused by the poison was so great that he killed himself on a funeral pyre.
		After death he was brought by the gods to Olympus and married to Hebe, goddess of youth.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570023/Hercules_(mythology).html (901 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Arrests in Indian ritual burning
		Fifteen people have been arrested in central India after a woman burned to death on her husband's funeral pyre.
		The suspects in Madhya Pradesh state face charges of murder and conspiracy, the authorities say, and include the woman's two grown-up sons, who apparently did nothing to stop her.
		For several days thousands of people thronged the village to pay their respects to the dead woman - but the police said it was just an impulsive act of suicide rather than a contemplated act of sati.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/2178102.stm (431 words)

	funeral pyre -- funeral pyre help \| genealogy search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Unclothed, dark-skinned with long, dishevelled hair, the girl was engrossed in scrubbing herself with a skullcap that she had picked up from a nearby funeral pyre.
		It builds its own funeral pyre with wood and spices, sets itself on fire and rises reborn again from the ashes more beautiful than ever to live for another 500 years.
		And on the twelfth day, as he was lying on the funeral pyre, he returned to life and told them what he had seen in the other world.î The Republic, Book X by Plato Plato's Republic George Berkeley, an...
	www.funeralaid.com /e/funeralpyre (1364 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Indian woman dies on husband's pyre
		Police in India say a 65-year-old woman has burned to death on her husband's funeral pyre committing the outlawed practice of "sati".
		Reports said the woman, Kuttu Bai, decided to kill herself on her husband Mallu Nai's pyre after he died from a prolonged illness.
		For several days thousands of people thronged the village to pay their respects to the dead woman but the police said it was just an impulsive act of suicide rather than a contemplated act of sati.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/2176885.stm (418 words)

	Meningar.com om pyre. info, home, Pyre mm.
		Balder's horse with all its harness was led to the pyre...
		The gods wanted to launch it and to build Balder's funeral pyre on it, but they could not move it at all...
		Tranängens Pyre made for Hummelmoras erhöll sitt 3:e CK i juniorklass med klassvinst...
	www.meningar.com /pyre.html (1026 words)

	Sati in India, Sati - the Burning of The Widow bride
		Sati is the practice through which widows are voluntarily or forcibly burned alive on their husband's funeral pyre.
		Sati, the wife of Daksha, was so overcome at the demise of her husband that she immolated herself on his funeral pyre.
		Sacrificing the widow in her dead husband's funeral or pyre was not unique only to India.
	www.indianchild.com /sati_in_india.htm (585 words)

	Death in a funeral pyre
		ON August 6, in an incident claimed to be a case of "sati", a 65-year-old woman of the Nai (barber) caste was burnt to death in Tamoli Patna village in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh in the presence of a 1,000-strong crowd.
		The district police, which received information about the event, were physically prevented from rescuing Guttu Bai from the funeral pyre of her husband, 70-year-old Mallu Nai.
		Shaily said that it was unusual for a woman to be present in a funeral procession and there was reason to believe that she may have been forced to visit her husband's pyre.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1917/19171340.htm (1091 words)

	Jock Fistick "Nepal:Pashupatinath Temple" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This man mourns the death of his daughter and walks around her body on the funeral pyre before lighting the cloth in her mouth to start the cremation, as family members weep.
		Since wood has to be transported a long way, and is therefore expensive, the size of the funeral pyre is an indicator of the family's social standing.
		A young boy walks past a funeral payer seemingly unaware of the cremation ceremony, an ordinary occurrence in this ancient culture.
	www.fistick.com /nepal2.html (226 words)

	Starcraft Legacy - Funeral Pyre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The control of the high ground is necessary for some economic gain and economic frequency is important as well.
		Commonly Island Maps recieve the 9 mineral patches and 1 gas mine that are located apon Funeral Pyre.
		Enjoy it, this causes for an even more fast paced battle since people might generally consider delaying an extra minute or two from expansion because of that number of minerals.
	www.sclegacy.com /strategy/map/funeralpyre.php (546 words)

	♪ Berserk Lyrics -- ( Funeral Pyre Song Lyrics )
		My body is offered in this funeral pyre.
		The gods are with me in this funeral pyre.
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	lyrics.rare-lyrics.com /B/Berserk/Funeral-Pyre.html (142 words)

	Fiction: The Funeral Pyre
		She had a funeral, so Kat thought Uncle that should have one too.
		Consequently, Preacher had attended every funeral in the town over the past 20 years.
		She knew her words wouldn't be welcomed, but nonetheless, the girl spoke.
	www.copperfieldreview.com /fiction/funeral_pyre.htm (2179 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Funeral pyre at Waco : Two Britons among cult's survivors
		Funeral pyre at Waco : Two Britons among cult's survivors
		A vast funeral pyre whose smoke spread darkly over the Texas plains brought a violent end to the 51-day siege of Waco yesterday, as the Branch Davidian cult of David Koresh died in a biblical holocaust of fire.
		Subjected to six hours of assault by teargas, pumped into their compound by tanks with battering rams, only nine of the 95 British, American and Australian converts - including 25 children, 17 of them under the age of 10 - believed to have been inside the building staggered out of the flames to be arrested.
	www.guardian.co.uk /fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1195042,00.html?=rss (1092 words)

	My Wife wants to Sati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Woman commits sati in UP village Hamirpur: In a shocking incident, a young woman ended her life by jumping into the funeral pyre of her husband in village Satpurwa in Mohaba district of Uttar Pradesh here, police said on Friday.
		The woman, dressed in bridal finery, jumped into the pyre on Thursday in the presence of hundreds of villagers who raised slogans of "jai sati maiya".
		Police said the young woman had announced that she would end her life on her husband's funeral pyre.
	www.ishipress.com /sati.htm (248 words)

	BBC - Nottingham - Entertainment - Funeral pyre
		After a sneaky appearance at Download, Funeral For A Friend are heading back to Notts.
		The only real problem the band has is deciding which tracks to play and which to drop from their successful long players (debut album Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation gained the band several awards).
		Funeral For A Friend play Rock City on 6th July 2005.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/content/articles/2005/06/18/entertainment_music_interviews_2005_06_funeral_for_a_friend_feature.shtml (243 words)

	funeral pyre
		The body on the pyre, wrapped in its winding sheet, was small and the bones dry.
		Iolaus, you were over a hundred years old when you died." He pointed back to the funeral pyre, the sparks still rising into the sky above the tops of the trees.
		First the message that he should hurry to his old friend's side, then arriving to find Iolaus had died only hours before, then the funeral and facing all those people who were trying to comfort him when there was nothing anyone could possibly say that would be of comfort.
	www.geocities.com /amoretteall/funeralpyre.html (3637 words)

	IOL: Widow forced onto husband's funeral pyre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kuttu Bai's elder son Ashok Sen Nai is accused of lighting the pyre in front of several people, including her younger son.
		Police charged Sumer Singh, Mal Singh's father, with forcing Roop Kanwar to sit on the pyre with her husband's body as part of the outlawed Hindu rite.
		Pushpendra Singh, his other son, was accused of lighting the pyre in front of several people.
	www.iol.co.za /?click_id=3&art_id=qw1028718721660I534&set_id=1 (749 words)

	The Sultan's Funeral Pyre
		Rumors have been flying about whether she will prove her devotion by throwing herself upon the funeral pyre, as well as rumors about the fights she has with her son.
		Outside court, small crowds frequently gather attempting to gain some of his wisdom, as though it were a by-product of his enlightenment.
		People from all over India are heading for Bengal to pay their respects and attend the funeral.
	luxnova.home.mindspring.com /indiagame/5min.htm (4087 words)

	Funeral Pyre of Pol Pot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		By this definition, here is the funeral pyre of a great man.
		His own household furniture, from where he lived his last days, provided wood for the funeral pyre.
		Yes, at the top of the heap, that is his chair which he used to sit in while being interviewed by reporters.
	www.ishipress.com /pot-pyre.htm (340 words)

	FUNERAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ARCADE FIRE Funeral (2005 UK 10-track CD album Arcade Fire are possibly the most exciting band of 2005, the buzz in America started at CMJ last year and quickly spread to the UK.
		ARCADE FIRE Funeral (2005 UK 10-track vinyl LP, Arcade Fire are possibly the most exciting band of 2005, the buzz in America started at CMJ last year and quickly spread to the UK.
		H.I.M (HIS INFERNAL MAJESTY) Funeral Of Hearts Textile Poster (Officially licensed high quality polyester washable fabric poster flag with a printed 'Funeral Of Hearts' logo.
	eil.com /shop/extsearch.asp?disctitle=funeral (822 words)

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