There are records of bitter village conflicts in which Pande families were denied the right to bury their dead in the village cemetery because the families did not obtain holy water from pedandas, and the villagers said the unpurified bodies would contaminate the cemetery.
The hyoid cartilage is formed of a series of skeletal elements: entoglossum (or paraglossals), basihyal (basihyoid), basibranchial (or urohyal), ceratobranchial, and epibranchial (Fig. 3.21), the most anterior of which (entoglossum and basihyal) constitute the tongue skeleton.
There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens.