Editing Pavic Law and Customs (section)

==Burial Customs==

This really depends on religion. Pavis people from The Real City have graveyards inside Greater Pavis (The Big Rubble)

Most people are buried (or at least dealt with) on the other side of the river, beyond the sable camp. Here the sun worshippers burn their people in hot fires, wind worshippers burn them with smoky fires, New Pavis people and knowledge worshippers bury their dead with a stone pillow, and usually a marker of some sort. River people sink the body in a special sealed basket like a lobster pot, and after a season retrieve the bones. Especially important people are sent on unmanned funeral barges that seek out the Homeward Ocean and thus the underworld. Humakti tend to deal with bodies however is convenient, but never what is traditional for the member's family (as they are sundered from the kin). Nomad peoples deal with bodies, often by cremation, on the steppe. Cremated bodies usually have the ashes retrieved and placed in urns, then put in household shrines or placed in temple under-vaults.

Criminals are crucified on the road to the city and left to rot, the stench is appalling and is yet another thing that the people of Pavis resent about the empire. Prior to this they were usually throttled (a wind custom, in Old Pavis they were stoned) and thrown in a mass burial pit over the river (this pit has a bad name for hauntings and only Daka Fal ''godi'' dare tend the pit.)

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