I've heard that most gravestones face east due to an old superstition. I want to know what that is....
2007-08-12 05:51:40 · 8 answers · asked by kindra75 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
as far as i know jewish graves face jerusalem and muslim graves face mecca.
christian graves face the east just like old churches used to face east, the sun... "representing" the ressurection.
i'm not sure about graves in other religions.
2007-08-12 10:48:02 · answer #1 · answered by joe the man 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is because when the Sun would go down, the people wouldn't know if it would come back; when it did, it meant to them a sign of rebirth, like the world was created all over again.
2007-08-12 10:14:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's so that the bodies can sit up directly and behold the return of jebus. Too bad they'll all be filled with cotton balls and formaldehyde. Jebus doesn't like that smell any more than biology students do.
2007-08-12 08:33:54 · answer #3 · answered by Entropy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They face east so as to face the sunrise, a symbol of hope and of the mythological resurrection from the dead.
2007-08-12 06:16:26 · answer #4 · answered by Big Bill 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I think it is so they can see the coming of Jesus on judgment day, because he is supposed to rise from the east and blow gabriels trumpet or some such.
2007-08-12 05:59:49 · answer #5 · answered by Carpathian Mage 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
That the souls of the dead will be reborn like the Sun.
2007-08-12 05:58:14 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because in ancient and moderen time many people face eastto pray to their God.... It had already became a tradition of man-kind to bury all members of man-kind to face the same direction God is in....................................................................................................
2007-08-12 11:43:08 · answer #7 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
so when the sun come up they can get up.
2007-08-12 06:02:13 · answer #8 · answered by deserthawk 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋