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Then, still beneath its white shroud, they laid it gently on the highest step of the altar. - (Marauders of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #322)

The dead need no anointing to enter the sanctuary. Only the living, it is held, can profane the sacred. The four men of Torvaldsland carried the huge body of Ivar Forkbeard up the steps of the altar, on the crossed spears. Then, still beneath its white shroud, they laid it gently on the highest step of the altar. Then the four men fell back, two to each side, heads down. The High Initiate then began to intone a complex prayer in archaic Gorean, to which, at intervals, responses were made by the assembled Initiates, those within the railing originally and now, too, those twelve, still carrying candles, who had accompanied the body from the ship through the dirt streets of Kassau, among the wooden buildings, to the temple. When the High Initiate finished his prayer, the other Initiates began to sing a solemn hymn, while the High Initiate, at the altar, his back turned to the congregation, began to prepare, with words and signs, the grease of Priest-Kings, for the anointing of the bones of Ivar Forkbeard. - (Marauders of Gor)