Pyre Collection

New Forest Snake Catcher
The New Forest snake catcher

Wotan at the Pyre
Wotan bids farewell to his daughter Brunnhilde as she sleeps a magic sleep surrounded by a magic fire which only a true hero can penetrate (Sigfried does it !)

Ancient Persian priests performing ritual sacrifices
Ancient Persian priests in white robes performing ritual sacrifices at a pyre. Pireo e Sacerdoti Persi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes

Cremation on the bnaks of the Ganges - Benares
Benares, India - Cremation area on banks of the Ganges. Bodies wrapped in cloth await the ceremonial burning at the waters edge. circa 1920s

ROMANY FUNERAL PYRE
A Romany gipsy funeral pyre, where the caravan of the deceased gipsy elder is burned. Here, accompanied by a policeman, relatives are paying their last respects. Date: 1930s

CAESAR'S PYRE/HOUBRAKEN
The tall funeral pyre of Julius Caesar is lit by torches which in turn ignates the divided loyalties of the Roman people. Date: 15 March 44 BC

CUSTOMS/SUTTEE
Women prepare for a suttee of a Hindu widow Date: circa 1840

BRUNNHILDE'S DEATHBED
The devouring flames curl round the body of Brunnhilde as she lies on her funeral pyre, driven to death by despair at the death of her lover, Siegfried

ETRUSCANS BURN DEAD BC
ANCIENT ETRUSCANS The body of a dead woman is carried to the funeral pyre where she will be cremated Date: BC

Iron Age Funeral Scene Social Scenes Pre History
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ROMAN FUNERAL
A Roman funeral procession carries the dead man's corpse to the funeral pyre, where the widow stabs herself to the alarm of her friends ; note the weeping mourners Date: circa 1st century

CAESAR'S FUNERAL PYRE
The funeral of Julius Caesar divides loyalties among the Roman people Date: 15 March 44 BC

People around a cremation funeral pyre, India
Vintage 19th century photograph: group of people around a cremation funeral pyre, India

Cremation of a Burmese Buddhist monk, pongyi
Vintage 19th century photograph: cremation of a Burmese Buddhist monk or pongyi on an elaborate funeral pyre, fire. See our other images of different stages of the process

Scenes from Guinea, Africa, 1820
The palace of the King of Dahomey at Abomey 37, an African man hiding a fetish 38, and people of Whydah worshipping a huge snake 39. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Gods worshipped by the ancient Persians. Saturn 1, Jupiter-Horus with bird head 2, Mars 3, double-headed Sun god 4, Venus 5, Mercury with pig head and fish tail 6 and Moon god on horseback 7

Five-story funeral pyre for a Roman Emperor in Rome
Five-story funeral pyre for a Roman Emperor in flames, Rome. The pyramid is decorated with garlands and statues, crowned with a figure on a quadriga, four-horse chariot

Portrait of Roman Emperor Constantius I
Roman Emperor Constantius I, 250-306. Marcus Flavius Valerius Constantius Herculius Augustus, commonly known as Constantius Chlorus

Japanese wedding ceremony. A monk presides over the marriage in a shrine to the goddess of virginity while musicians play on gongs and koto harp

SUTTEE IN 1951
When police at Rajadhar, India, try to prevent a widow from joining her husband on his funeral pyre, they provoke a riot Date: 1951

Auto-da-fe of the Spanish Inquisition. Engraving by Vergeil (19th c.). Engraving

Funeral pyre, India, circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

Place where Julius Caesar was cremated. Rome. Italy
Italy. Rome. Altar who commemorates the place where Julius Caesar was cremated at the Temple of the Divine Julius

German Widow Immolates
ANCIENT GERMANY a devoted widow stabs herself on her husbands funeral pyre Date: BC

Indian men accompanying a widow to a funeral pyre (sati).. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity

Native Canadian Worship
Native Canadians honour their deity Quitchi Manitou (variously spelt) with a huge sacrificial pyre topped with valuable goods which they hope will appease him. Date: 18th century

Spain (1873). First Republic. Anticlerical demonstration
" Spain (1873). First Republic. Anticlerical demonstration in Madrid (July 1873). Published in " L Illustration. Journal Universel". Etching."

Brunnhildes End
Act three : Brunnhilde rides her horse Grane into Siegfrieds funeral pyre

Death, skeleton
A wonderfully macabre grinning skeleton with a full head of hair and wearing a robe, crouches by a fire of burning human remains to warm its hands

Suttee, India
A widow of Malabar, southern India, prepares to throw herself onto her husbands funeral pyre

Augustuss Funeral
The apotheosis of Augustus - his spirit in the form of a dove soars above his funeral pyre, to the amazement and acclamations of the spectators

Croesus Funeral Pyre
Croesus, king of Lydia, whose wealth was legendary, on his funeral pyre after defeat by Cyrus of Persia, prepares to try to take some of it with him

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