Heard an interesting word...

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Jase

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Listening to a Christian radio station...on this Good Friday..

heard the word... ossuary

Anybody?
 

shittim

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a stone "box" to hold the bones of the dead?
 

Lynx

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I've heard of it, but never seen one.

Kind of like a reliquary, but not quite. (Heard that word in a video game called rebel galaxy.)
 

blueskies

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An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.
A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary.

This is a beautiful, bizarre and slightly disturbing rabbit hole if you want to see or know more:

Bone Houses: A Definitive Guide to the World's Ossuaries
 

2ndTimothyGroup

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posthuman

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Listening to a Christian radio station...on this Good Friday..

heard the word... ossuary

Anybody?
i am familiar with this word.

i mean, if you look at my avatar, you might have guessed lol

the truth is that i know a little bit of latin ((osse = bone)) and for very long time i have kept a habit of doing a lot of crossword puzzles . . . :ROFL:
 

2ndTimothyGroup

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i am familiar with this word.

i mean, if you look at my avatar, you might have guessed lol

the truth is that for very long time i have kept a habit of doing a lot of crossword puzzles . . . :ROFL:
I'm a former cremationist . . . your avatar does look rather familiar (less the pose).
 

posthuman

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I'm a former cremationist . . . your avatar does look rather familiar (less the pose).
"skeleton supplicant"

it's Colossians 3:3, more or less :)


what an interesting profession that must have been! i don't think i could keep it up for a lifetime
 

2ndTimothyGroup

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what an interesting profession that must have been! i don't think i could keep it up for a lifetime
I only had to do it for seven months before I received my promotion to the business office. The things I saw . . . it was terrifying. I hated most of the job, though working with families was a True treasure. I'll admit . . . I was afraid of cremating people (and an occasional fetus in a bucket). Often I was the only one in the columbarium . . . surrounded by tens of thousands of cremated people. I never saw a ghost but was always looking over my shoulder.
 

JaumeJ

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Os is bone, ostiary would be a place to keep a bone or bones.