And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Others say that the drape signifies the last partition between life and death.“Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. The shroud-draped urn is believed by some to mean that the soul has departed the shrouded body for its trip to heaven. The cloth draping the urn symbolically guarded the ashes. The urn is commonly believed to testify to the death of the body and the dust into which the dead body will change, while the spirit of the departed eternally rests with God. The shape of the container in which the ashes were placed may have taken the form of a simple box or a marble vase, but no matter what it looked like it was called an "urn," derived from the Latin uro, meaning "to burn."Īs burial became a more common practice, the urn continued to be closely associated with death. In some periods, especially classical times, it was more common than burial.
The design represents a funeral urn and is thought to symbolize immortality.Ĭremation was an early form of preparing the dead for burial.
After the cross, the urn is one of the most commonly used cemetery monuments.
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