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Which burial custom among the Finno-Ugric peoples of the Volga region, documented through the 19th century, involved dressing the deceased in their wedding clothes and provisioning them with food and tools for the afterlife journey?

Among the Mordvins and Udmurts, the 'wedding of the dead' (свадьба мертвеца) treated death as a marriage to the earth, with the funeral mirroring wedding rituals including a feast and lamentations.

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