There are a number of enduring traditions associated with death and burial. Wake on the 9th and 40th day are among them. This tradition is strictly observed even by people who are not related to religion and do not go into the meaning of custom.
Wake on the ninth day
According to legend, the first three days the soul is next to the body and still can not leave it. But on the fourth day, usually after the funeral, she goes on a short trip. From 4 to 9 days after death, the soul of a deceased person visits the homes of his family and friends, is located near relatives and closest friends. That is why after 9 days, people who knew the deceased best of all and cherished him most of all, arrange a funeral to say goodbye to the soul, which now leaves them.
According to Christian doctrines, from 3 to 9 days after death, the angels show the soul of the deceased the halls of God, allow him to enter heaven and see the pleasures prepared for those who lived a righteous life. By the ninth day, a person either forgets all the sorrow and pain that he experienced while living in the earthly body, or realizes that he has lived his life wrongly and cannot enjoy the beauty of paradise and peace after death. Gathering a wake at this time, the deceased's closest friends and relatives recall him with kind words, pray for him, ask that his soul go to heaven, and the angels see this.
