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Health & Medicine; Death, Burial & Afterlife; The End of the
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12/06/2009

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Pluto:
Definition
God of underworld/ death
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Styx: 
Definition
 river that was in between earth and the underworld, Charon was the ferryman
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Cena Novendialis:
Definition
feast to honor the dead
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Elysium/Elysian Fields: 
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 were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous.
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manes:
Definition
Ghosts     (or according to Vergil, the 'shades of the Underworld'  how poetic.) 
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Charon: 
Definition
 ferryman of River styx
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Parentalia: 
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 was a Roman festival for the cult honour of the di/divi parentes (the deified ancestors).
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Libations:
Definition
a ritual pouring of a drink as an offering to a god
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requiescit in pace:
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rest in peace: a phrase used on tombstones before the name of the deceased.
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