In the middle of the court was a catafalque, raised about two yards above the ground and covered completely by an immense canopy of black velvet, and on the steps all round it white wax tapers burned in more than a hundred silver candlesticks.
Altisidora had by this time sat up on the catafalque, and as she did so the clarions sounded, accompanied by the flutes, and the voices of all present exclaiming, "Long life to Altisidora!
And he saw before him a plump, rather sallow-faced, short, stout woman, the Empress Mother, with her smile and her words at her first gracious reception of him, and then that same face on the
catafalque, and the encounter he had with Zubov over her coffin about his right to kiss her hand.
The sepulchral depths of the descent were dimly lighted by a silver lamp on the lowest step; and just below this lamp there was laid, wrapped in a flowing mantle of violet velvet, worked with fleurs-de-lis of gold, a
catafalque resting on trestles of oak.
At the top of each chapel is the
catafalque - the place where the coffin sits before heading off to the ovens behind the doors.
The service involves the mounting of a
catafalque party of the Australian Army Rifle Company Butterworth standing guard around an obelisk on the memorial site, where family members of the POW and individuals lay wreaths as a symbol of respect.
"They would then be placed on the
catafalque and the cremation would be undertaken in due course."
Synopsis: A two volume set, "
Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity" by Peter Kingsley is the first major re-imagining of both Jung and his work since the publication of the Red Book in 2009--and is the only serious assessment of them written by a classical scholar who understands the ancient Gnostic, Hermetic and alchemical foundations of his thought as well as Jung himself did.
His
catafalque guard consisted of 100,000 heavily armed soldiers, and the casket was in a gold carriage driven by 16 horses...
Even a single word--PK Page's choice of the word
catafalque in her phrase the tall eventual catafalque--can bring me delight.
With Bush's casket atop the Lincoln
Catafalque, first used for Abraham Lincoln's 1865 funeral, dignitaries came forward to honor the Texan whose efforts for his country extended three quarters of a century from World War II through his final years as an advocate for volunteerism and relief for people displaced by natural disaster.
