 Once the plants had withered, the women would mourn and lament loudly over the death of Adonis, tearing their clothes and beating their breasts in a public display of grief.The women would lay a statuette of Adonis out on a bier and then carry it to the sea along with all the withered plants as a funeral procession.The festival concluded with the women throwing the effigy of Adonis and the withered plants out to sea.