You only got special treatment after death for a time, but in the end, you wound back up alongside your friends and family. The circle symbols represents the cycle of the seasons. Only once the person was deceased for an entire year could they be placed in the box and set on top of a mortuary pole. The Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian) attitudes to death differed widely from those of the Egyptians. There are seven sacred rites the Lakota abide by. The Hopewell people, or Hopewell culture, were several unknown tribes who shared very similar forms of art and architecture, according to the US National Park Service. The Algonquin's more important people, like chiefs, were treated a bit differently, though. They existed primarily to cause suffering. Brown, Joseph Epes, ed. Some accounts add that the arrows did not entirely kill Unhcegila, but injured her so greatly, that she damaged the land as she writhed in pain. One of the most sensational books on evidence for the survival of the human soul after death was the 2002 bestseller The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death by Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., and William L. Simon. Regardless of how old we are, we never stop learning. Common practices include washing the deceased individual's body, preparing their favorite foods as offerings, cleansing the burial ground, holding a wake, and cleansing the burial or cremation site. Served as a role model for all the people. Native American art,