the avriving of the departing

i was told by my dad and so as my other family members that upon someone's death, there will come a day that we aren't allow to venture around the house for a moment in time as the soul or as many will say, the spirit of the dear departed will return to the places he/she has visited in his past life will return to check on the family they left behind accompanied by two fearsome guardians of the underworld from the chinese myth/legend, the Ox-Head & Horse-Face. according to the elders, if eyes are set upon them upon avriving as they pass thru, o-ooo! it will just be plain BAD!! Teruk, Tak Baik, 'mm Hou' (not good) or 'mm hou choi' (bad luck)..u get the picture rite! o.o

momentarily, i had just been thru my dear grandpa's departure and we are expecting the day my granpa's visit to come and it's for a few hours' so we are all advised to stay put in our rooms. in a way im terrified but also in other way, im interested in knowing more of the chinese myth's coz plainly, damm interesting weh! but yea, tough luck so far coz this is only what i got from my sourse-of-all-info, Wikipedia.com though the date is set by the priest's from the day of the servise down at Nirvana Memorial Center. all i can say is, im trying to be brave and hope the time pass! im very much human as the others!

"Ox-Head (牛頭) and Horse-Face (馬面) are two fearsome guardians of the Underworld in Chinese mythology, where the dead face judgement (and punishment) prior to reincarnation. As indicated by their names, one has the head of an ox, and the other has the head of horse. They are the first people a dead soul meets upon arriving in the Underworld; in many stories they directly escort the newly dead to the Underworld (apparently some try to run away). Usually, the two are mentioned together (牛頭馬面)." -Wikipedia

-posted here in the memory of my grandpa as in the mean time, thought you all might be interested as i am!