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Spanish
Noun
necropompa f (uncountable)
- (historical) among the Incas, burial of servants along with their dead master or mistress
1994, RJ Mandrini, “Sobre el suttee entre los indígenas de las llanuras argentinas, Nuevos datos e interpretaciones sobre el orígen y práctica”, in Anales de antropología, volume 31, page 261:El término deriva del nombre del rito hindú de cremar a la esposa sobre la pira funeraria del marido pero, por extensión, se lo utiliza--asi como el de necropompa--para referirse a la costumbre de immolar y enterrar en la tumba de un gobernante, jefe o personaje importante a su esposa/s y/o a sus servidores, o a algunos de cllos (González,1979 l3l).- (please add an English translation of this quotation)