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Traditional cremation ceremony in Bali. Source: Victoria Boroda / Adobe Stock

9 November, 2023 - 17:56 ancient-origins

From India and Taiwan to Tibet, the Living Assist the Dead in their Passage

Many people see death as a rite of a passage : a journey to some new place, or a threshold between two kinds of being. Zoroastrians believe that there is a bridge of judgment that each person who...