bury?

[’eylan ’angtsìkä]

Do we know anything about Na'vi post-mortem practice?  How are bodies of the dead handled?

Do we know any word for, or similar to, bury, whether related to funerals or not?

Irayo!!

[`Eylan Ayfalulukanä]

Do we know anything about Na'vi post-mortem practice?  How are bodies of the dead handled?

Do we know any word for, or similar to, bury, whether related to funerals or not?

Irayo!!

We do know from the movie that the Na`vi are aware of what we might call 'the circle of life', and that the energy our bodies contain will someday be returned to the ecosystem. This takes place in a scene which is almost certainly a 'funeral'. At first, it looked to me like afterwards the body was left for scavengers and mostly returned into the food chain (some `Rrta cultures do this). But on subsequent viewings, it looks like a dug grave, that at first doesn't look like a grave due to the tangle of roots in and around the body.

I am going to have to look in the lexical expansion project documents and see if there was a request for 'grave'. I know I requested a number of words having to do with predation, and the fate of a prey item after it was killed. (I study lions and other big cats, as well as keep them, so predator biology is a big deal to me.)

[’eylan ’angtsìkä]

irayo!

it's good to know someone is keeping an eye on the requested vocabulary.

[Sireayä mokri]

I also want to note that they bury the dead in "pose of embryo". Symbolism of returning to Mother, I think.