The dead remain members of the Ingessana community and are the object of continuous ritual attention. A person is buried where they die, furnished with food, weapons and tools for the passage beyond; when death comes away from home, kin perform a rite to summon the spirit back to the village, after which the body is washed, richly ornamented and wrapped in cloth for burial. The ancestral dead are appealed to together with the creator in times of need, and the agrarian observances of the hills are addressed as much to them as to Tel. They are venerated as a collective presence rather than as separately named individuals.