Markoid wrote: tiompan wrote: Yes ,the more sanitised stuff is relatively recent and it's imagined that the beliefs and rituals are pretty similar even across Europe , when that is not the case .
Secondary burial is still carried out in southern and eastern Europe with attendant rituals that seem strange to us north westerners .
Rituals respect the dead and the living. I think that's where the word came from. A relegious term. Almost like a trance - like prayer.
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
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