Memories of others is a legacy we give to those we love, a great man give great memoryes for is loved ones is sayd on my land, and those legacys are forever remembered.
Now i know a bit more about the ritual and it is still both mystical and enigmatic, just a bit more brigther now. I hope your friends father soul is on a heavenly place along with God blessings and his family is fully aware of that and finds balance to the pain of the loss, and God conforms them as well.