To finish.
This morning I dropped decent SIL at the temple to meet wife and useless sisters to pick up ashes. He was to be dumped in the river following some chanting.
When we got there, we were taken up to the incinerator to collect them.
There on a large baking tray was FIL or at least what was left of him.
Bits of skull were at the top, a rib across the middle, a femur near the bottom of wait for it……
A stickman made out of his bones. beside it was a carrier bag of ashes.
Some magic was done, coins placed on this figure of a man made from burnt bones, and put some flowers on it.
mini Q said loudly ” what sort of magic is this then?” I left to go to the office.
Took them up country to a river in the afternoon and it is now all done, bar the woman with a child down stairs, not sure where she is from,
Edit
Premature posting:
I’ve never seen the final stage of the funeral process, I didn’t feel it was appropriate to snap a photo or I would have, I do have many questions, such as do they make a stick woman for a female.