Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

FUNERAL - PILES OF THE DEAD BURNING 

Symbolic of the lower mental qualities dissolved and superseded.

'Apollo afterwards dispatching pointed arrow against the Greeks themselves he smote them, and frequent funeral-piles of the dead were continually burning." - Iliad, Bk. I.

But afterwards the lower mental qualities (Greeks) are stirred and rendered impotent, the Divine Will (“shaft of the Spirit") being called into play; and the while, the lower aspects of the Self, being effete at this stage, were outgrown and dissipated.  

See Also

ARROWS (divine)
BURNING
CREMATION
FIRE
GREEKS
KABANDHA
MAN (natural)
PESTILENCE
WRATH OF APOLLO