The East Timorese believe a curse plagues the families of people who die without a proper burial, so this ceremony is to symbolically put Fernando's soul to rest, and bring peace to his bereaved relatives.

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Fire is symbolically important throughout his poetry.

火是叶芝诗里重要的象征。

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These are spelled out in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20, those two chapters. Besides defiling the sinner, moral impurity symbolically defiles various sancta, especially the sanctuary, but also God's name and also the Holy Land itself.

这些都在《利未记》十八章和二十章里讲清楚了，除了玷污人使人变得有罪，道德上的不洁从象征意义上玷污了各层圣所，尤其是最外面那层圣所，同时也玷污了上帝的名字,和“圣地“这个名字。

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