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tiompan wrote: moss wrote: Less sanitised, and please don't read the link if you are squeamish, is the Tibetan 'sky burials' and probably nearer in principle to the excarnation of the prehistoric period. http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~pamlogan/skybury.htm It's likely that there was more to the rituals than just excarnation ,if contemporary practices from differing cultures are anything to go by . Smearing yourself in the more liquid remains of the ancestors , takes a bit of beating . There seems to be a fair bit of defleshing activity happening in the sky burials as opposed to simply leaving an entire intact corpse to the birdies. Don't watch this if you are in any way queazy about such things. https://youtu.be/BUp4jUMIy68 Perhaps the carving up of the main course on the video could explain some of the "chops and scrapes" on the Orkney bones. While sky burials/excarnation can be seen simply as the removal of the dead flesh on an empty vessel... it would make sense to assist/ ease the work of the birds. Some of the sky burial reports describe the de-fleshing by birds taking mere minutes after the partial carving up of the main course. That is a very quick job indeed. The smearing does take some beating though. Reply | with quote |  14th June 2016ce 16:44 In reply to: Re: What they did with their dead .... (tiompan)2 replies: Re: What they did with their dead .... (tiompan) Re: What they did with their dead .... (ryaner) |
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