Mastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorImagine some fictional culture where death is approached with more lightness, perhaps a celebration of a person's spirit returning to the care of their gods or an appreciation for a life well lived rather than focusing on the sadness of loss; what might the gravestones, monuments, or other structures marking a person's passing, look like in contrast to ours that are associated with being dark, gothic, and spooky?
Elena ``of Valhalla''@Curator everybody of age has a “Sunday's best” garment which gets new embroidered at every major event in their life.
When somebody dies their body is buried under a convenient tree, at the beginning of the forest just outside the village, and their garment is draped on the branches of the tree: the belief is that part of their soul will hang around to care for the people who have remained as long as there are still pieces of the garment on the tree, and then they will have fully merged with a kind of peaceful nature's consciousness out of which life is sustained.
The garments are quite colorful and move in the wind, and often can be seen from afar when people are working in the fields.
When somebody dies their body is buried under a convenient tree, at the beginning of the forest just outside the village, and their garment is draped on the branches of the tree: the belief is that part of their soul will hang around to care for the people who have remained as long as there are still pieces of the garment on the tree, and then they will have fully merged with a kind of peaceful nature's consciousness out of which life is sustained.
The garments are quite colorful and move in the wind, and often can be seen from afar when people are working in the fields.
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