His mother tells him from the window that he can't come inside the house because they have already performed his death rituals.

I'd never raised the dead on ground that had seen death rituals before.

The captain then moved to the command chair, not bothering with the death ritual.

From here he could look down on the plain and observe the death ritual.

It is used in most Santali social events, with the exception of death rituals.

Do you have any reference about those death rituals you mention?

For a moment, she considered performing the death ritual on him, then decided not to bother.

For the next three, five, or seven days, family members, relatives, and others perform a death ritual.

"That was the death ritual of which you spoke?"

The death ritual required him to pass the day without moving, to bear the pain, to bleed in memory of his friend.