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09/21/2015 01:25:45 PM · #1

In honor of public festivals of all kinds.

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snaffles

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09/21/2015 02:57:58 PM · #2

Uhhhh...a memento mori is a morbid Victorian tradition where you kept locks of hair and other similar keepsakes from dead loved ones.

Bear_Music

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09/21/2015 03:16:04 PM · #3

Originally posted by snaffles:

Uhhhh...a memento mori is a morbid Victorian tradition where you kept locks of hair and other similar keepsakes from dead loved ones.

No, it goes way, way back, at LEAST to medieval times. And in the heyday of still life painting in Europe, every still life had *something* dead in it as a memento mori.

Originally posted by wiki:

Memento mori (Latin: "remember (that you have) to die"[2]) is the medieval Latin theory and practice of reflection on mortality, especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. It is related to the ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") and related literature. Memento mori has been an important part of ascetic disciplines as a means of perfecting the character, by cultivating detachment and other virtues, and turning the attention towards the immortality of the soul and the afterlife.[3]

In art, memento mori are artistic or symbolic reminders of mortality.[2] In the European Christian art context, "the expression... developed with the growth of Christianity, which emphasized Heaven, Hell, and salvation of the soul in the afterlife."[4]

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Tiny

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09/21/2015 05:14:24 PM · #4

maybe

snaffles

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09/21/2015 05:38:34 PM · #5

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by snaffles:
Uhhhh...a memento mori is a morbid Victorian tradition where you kept locks of hair and other similar keepsakes from dead loved ones.

No, it goes way, way back, at LEAST to medieval times. And in the heyday of still life painting in Europe, every still life had *something* dead in it as a memento mori.

Originally posted by wiki:
Memento mori (Latin: "remember (that you have) to die"[2]) is the medieval Latin theory and practice of reflection on mortality, especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. It is related to the ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") and related literature. Memento mori has been an important part of ascetic disciplines as a means of perfecting the character, by cultivating detachment and other virtues, and turning the attention towards the immortality of the soul and the afterlife.[3]

In art, memento mori are artistic or symbolic reminders of mortality.[2] In the European Christian art context, "the expression... developed with the growth of Christianity, which emphasized Heaven, Hell, and salvation of the soul in the afterlife."[4]

Thanks for correcting me. I still automatically think of the Victorians excelling at it, they were so obsessed with death. They were the proto-Goths.

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09/21/2015 06:57:21 PM · #6

The Victorians also dressed the dead person up in their best clothes and had a portrait done. Sometimes posing with the dead person.

NOT what I had in mind!!!!!!!

NO.

Memento Moro in the sense that we are all mortal. The dead are always with us. In spirit.

The Day of the Dead festival. Think of a wake. Think of any national holiday in honor of someone dead.

Ja-9

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09/21/2015 07:13:52 PM · #7

Originally posted by pixelpig:

The Victorians also dressed the dead person up in their best clothes and had a portrait done. Sometimes posing with the dead person.

NOT what I had in mind!!!!!!!

NO.

Memento Moro in the sense that we are all mortal. The dead are always with us. In spirit.

The Day of the Dead festival. Think of a wake. Think of any national holiday in honor of someone dead.

like "Memorial Day"???

09/21/2015 08:55:42 PM · #8

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