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In traditional Karelian thinking, death did not imply nonexistence but merely a transition of the deceased from the community of the living to the community of the ancestors.1 The living and the dead members of a family formed an organic unit,2 and the relationship between them was characterized by mutual dependence. This implied that the well-being of the living and the success of their enterprises were believed to be dependent on the benevolence of the ancestors, and conversely, the well-being of the deceased lay in the hands of the living.
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Keinänen, ML. (2014). “Feeding the Dead”. In: Utriainen, T., Salmesvuori, P. (eds) Finnish Women Making Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383471_2
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