~ CREMATE  TO INCINERATE or CONSUME BY FIRE or
           BURN A DEAD BODY TO ASHES
  lat CREMARE = TO BURN
  ply> | REDUCE TO ZERO or CENO as in CENOTAPH |
  note  links with ideas of
        LIFE and DESTRUCTION and BURNING
  lat   CREPARE   as in CREAK or CRY OUT as in SCREAM
  eng DECREPID
  gr    KHERAMOS        CERAMIC
        KHERES          CEREAL
  myth> KOR             GREEK GODDESS OF DEATH
        CERES           GODDESS or LIFE or MOTHER EARTH
  hx>   QUIRINAL        A PALACE IN ROME WHERE CITIZENS
                        SCREAMED or DEMANDED HELP
  myth> QUIRINUS        EARLY ROMAN GOD OF WAR
  see>  CHRISM          CHRIST