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Anakin Skywalker buried his mother in the sand.
Burial was a funeral rite used across the galaxy to honorarily dispose of the corpse of a sentient being by placing it into the ground. After his mother Shmi was tortured to death by a band of Tusken Raiders, Anakin Skywalker buried her in the sand at her husband's homestead.[1] During the Clone Wars, the Gran senator Kharrus was killed on Florrum and buried there under a heap of rocks.[2] On Jelucan, the inhabitants would practice sky burial, putting bodies in open cairns at high-altitude for birds to devour. They believed the birds took the soul as well as the flesh, into the sky, forever.[3] The bones of the Serennian ancestors of Dooku were buried on Monterro, the Funeral Moon of Serenno.[4]
Appearances
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- Dooku: Jedi Lost
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Gungan General"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Ghosts of Mortis"
- Lost Stars (Mentioned only)
- Leia, Princess of Alderaan
- "Never Far Behind"—Star Wars Rebels Magazine (Mentioned only)
- "Droid Hunters"—Star Wars Adventures Free Comic Book Day 2019 (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Rogue One: A Junior Novel (Mentioned only)
- "There is Another"—From a Certain Point of View
- Darth Vader 10: Shadows and Secrets, Part IV (Mentioned only)
- Darth Vader 11: Shadows and Secrets, Part V (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)
- Star Wars 37: Imperial Pride
- Aftermath: Empire's End
SourcesEdit
- "The Gungan General" – Episode Gallery on StarWars.com; image #11 (of 24)
- Anakin Skywalker in the Databank (backup link)
- Shmi Skywalker Lars biography gallery on StarWars.com; image #7 (of 8)
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones story gallery on StarWars.com; image #20 (of 35)
