Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Arts and Crafts/Africa Lore/82/en

|Burial=When an Oromo person dies, the body is washed and tied into a fetal position. The body is then wrapped in a perfumed mat. The intestines are removed from the body of an elite person, whose burial is done in private to preserve the idea that they are not physically mortal. Graves are generally 2 to 2.5 meters deep. The body is covered with stones, which are placed on the grave in symbolically important arrangements. Each child of the deceased places a stone on the grave in birth order, and thus, the circle of stones represents each of the deceased person's children. Other people also place stones on the grave, and a person's importance is measured by how many people placed stones there. The family of the deceased will shave their heads in mourning.