The Guayupe are an Arawak -speaking indigenous group of people in modern-day Colombia . They inhabit the westernmost parts of the department of Meta . At the time of the Spanish conquest , more than 250,000 Guayupe were living in large parts of Meta.
21-547: The territories of the Guayupe stretched from the neighbouring Guahibo terrains to the east and north and the Muisca territories to the west over an area of 22,000 square kilometres (8,500 sq mi). Knowledge of the Guayupe has been provided by Pedro de Aguado and others. The territory of the Guayupe before the Spanish conquest stretched from the rivers Upía and Guayabero to
42-461: A Bronze Age urn burial in Norfolk, England , prompted Sir Thomas Browne to describe the antiquities found. He expanded his study to survey burial and funerary customs, ancient and current, and published it as Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial (1658). In ancient Greece, cremation was usual, and the ashes were typically placed in a painted Greek vase . In particular, the lekythos , the shape of vase ,
63-560: A common reference in thought experiments in probability wherein marbles or balls of different colors are used to represent different results and the urn represents the "container" of the whole set of possible states. Funerary urns (also called cinerary urns and burial urns ) have been used by many civilizations. After death, corpses are cremated , and the ashes are collected and put in an urn. Pottery urns, dating from about 7000 BC, have been found in an early Jiahu site in China, where
84-490: A samovar it has a small tap near the base for extracting either tea or hot water. Unlike an electric water boiler , tea may be brewed in the vessel itself, although they are equally likely to be used to fill a large teapot . In Neoclassical furniture, it was a large wooden vase-like container which was usually set on a pedestal on either side of a side table. This was the characteristic of Adam designs and also of Hepplewhite 's work. Sometimes they were "knife urns", where
105-654: A different place from the body, to symbolize a particular affection for the place by the departed. In the modern funeral industry , cremation urns of varying quality, elaborateness, and cost are offered, and urns are another source of potential profit for an industry concerned that a trend toward cremation might threaten profits from traditional burial ceremonies. Biodegradable urns are sometimes used for both human and animal burial. They are made from eco-friendly materials such as recycled or handmade paper, salt, cellulose or other natural products that are capable of decomposing back into natural elements, and sometimes include
126-433: A seed intended to grow into a tree at the site of the burial. Besides the traditional funeral or cremation ashes urns, it may also be possible to keep a part of the ashes of the loved one or beloved pet in keepsake urns or ash jewellery, although this might be banned in some localities as the law of certain countries may prohibit keeping any human remains in a private residence. It is even, in some places, possible to place
147-615: A total of 32 burial urns are found, and another early finds are in Laoguantai, Shaanxi . There are about 700 burial urns unearthed over the Yangshao (5000–3000 BC) areas and consisting more than 50 varieties of form and shape. The burial urns were used mainly for children, but also sporadically for adults. The Urnfield culture ( c. 1300 BC – 750 BC), a late Bronze Age culture of central Europe , takes its name from its large cemeteries of urn burials. The discovery of
168-568: A vase or other terms, generally reflects its use rather than any particular shape or origin. The term is especially often used for funerary urns , vessels used in burials, either to hold the cremated ashes or as grave goods , but is used in many other contexts. Large sculpted vases are often called urns, whether placed outdoors, in gardens or as architectural ornaments on buildings, or kept inside. In catering, large vessels for serving tea or coffee are often called "tea-urns", even when they are metal cylinders of purely functional design. Urns are also
189-455: The Catalan Fort de Salses , an innovative type of fortress at this time. The Guayupe were an agricultural society with yuca one of their main crops. The Guayupe people went naked, only ornamented with gold , feathers and shells. The Guayupe society was organised around the caciques ; chiefs of the community. The cacique was regarded as an important person who lived by strict norms in
210-549: The Guayupe culture. In 2011, after the excavation of a Guayupe burial site, the museum of the Guayupe in Fuente de Oro was opened, containing bones, burial urns , artefacts and plates. As of 2009 yearly a Reina de Guayupe , miss contest in Puerto Santander, located at 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from the urban centre of Fuente de Oro, is held among the Guayupe. Guahibo people Too Many Requests If you report this error to
231-588: The Guayupe defecated in the rivers around and not near their houses. As in the Muisca religion , the main gods were the Sun and the Moon who were husband and wife. The supreme being of the Guayupe, in the Muisca religion called Chiminigagua , was Inaynagui . The products the Guayupe used in their rituals were coca and tobacco . Cannibalism is not reported of the Guayupe. In 1996, fifteen ceramic pots were found, pertaining to
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#1732858980576252-494: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.151 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 392831004 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:43:00 GMT Urn An urn is a vase , often with a cover, with a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal . Describing a vessel as an "urn", as opposed to
273-453: The ashes of two people in so-called companion urns. Cremation or funeral urns are made from a variety of materials such as wood, nature stone, ceramic, glass, or steel. A figural urn is a style of vase or larger container where the basic urn shape, of either a classic amphora or a crucible style, is ornamented with figures. These may be attached to the main body, forming handles or simply extraneous decorations, or may be shown in relief on
294-533: The body itself. The Ashes , the prize in the biennial Test cricket competition between England and Australia , are contained in a miniature urn . Urns are a common form of architectural detail and garden ornament . Well-known ornamental urns include the Waterloo Vase . A tea urn is a heated metal container traditionally used to brew tea or boil water in large quantities in factories, canteens or churches. They are not usually found in domestic use. Like
315-520: The ceremonial activities; births, marriages and burials. When a cacique of the Guayupe died, the body was cremated and his successor had to drink his ash mixed with chicha . The society of the Guayupe was egalitarian; caciques only had the use of stools and more feathers on their blankets. At every marriage, half of the bride treasure was going to the cacique . They built canoes of wood and consumed yuca and casabe , fish and meat. They didn't eat bird meat. According to scholar Pedro de Aguado ,
336-478: The first Europeans to encounter the Guayupe. Near the Guaviare river they found some items of clearly European origin. As they knew later, it were belongings of an expedition led by Alonso de Herrera , who likely came up the Guaviare river with boats. In 1934, the Guayupe "had slaughtered 90 of Herrera's men and the survivors escaped downstream. In Coro, we met some of them." The Guayupe are a tribe of farmers living in
357-807: The peaks of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes . Their area covered around 22,000 square kilometres (8,500 sq mi). The Guayupe lived mostly around the Ariari River . The first report on the Guayupe nation is from German conquistador Philipp von Hutten , participant of the expedition led by Georg Hohermuth von Speyer from Coro in Venezuela to the borders of the Amazon bassin (1535 - 1538). He describes them as "very good looking people and very able in defending themselves." Indeed, Hohermuths army never
378-401: The top lifted off, and cutlery was stored inside. Urns were also used as decorative turnings at the cross points of stretchers in 16th and 17th century furniture designs. The urn and the vase were often set on the central pedestal in a "broken" or "swan's" neck pediment. "Knife urns" placed on pedestals flanking a dining-room sideboard were an English innovation for high-style dining rooms of
399-631: The tropical mountain forests of the Eastern Ranges and the Llanos of Meta, Colombia. In pre-Columbian times they constructed pallisades around their villages consisting of houses around a central square with a ceremonial building in the middle. Because of the sophisticated defence works including palisades, thorn bushes and well-camouflaged pitfalls, the Spanish soldiers in Hohermuth's army nicknamed one of those well fortified villages "Little Salses", referring to
420-576: Was able to make peace with the Guayupe, crossing their entire land from the northern shores of Upía river down to the regions south of the Guaviare river . On their way, the conquistadors were engaged in various skirmishes and even in a big battle with the Guayupe warriors. "They tried their luck on us frequently but although they killed and wounded many of us, we always gave them the rawer deal. This nation fights with bow and arrow and spears and shields made of tapir skin, and they throw gins." The Germans were not
441-526: Was used for holding oil in funerary rituals. Romans placed the urns in a niche in a collective tomb called a columbarium (literally, dovecote ). The interior of a dovecote usually has niches to house doves . Cremation urns were also commonly used in early Anglo Saxon England , and in many Pre-Columbian cultures . In some later European traditions, a king's heart, and sometimes other organs, could be placed in one or more urns upon his death, as happened with King Otto of Bavaria in 1916, and buried in
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