yOU'D THINK THINGS WOULD CHANGE; BUT IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THE COSTUMES DO...
Posted on 10/06/2023 3:53:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
-Europeans probably ate their dead loved ones instead of burying them 15,000 years ago.
-According to a new study, the consumption of dead people was not essential, but a ritual.
-Researchers also said people used the remaining bones as cups and chewed on them.
Cannibalistic Europeans likely feasted on their deceased loved ones at funerals instead of burying them, according to a new study.
Scientists now believe that cannibalism was widespread among Magdalenian Upper Palaeolithic people, who lived across Europe between 11,000 and 17,000 years ago, according to the study published in Quaternary Science Reviews.
The study's researchers analyzed funerary practices at 25 Magdalenians burial sites across France, Germany, Spain, Russia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Portugal. The study found evidence that these early humans had chew marks on their dead's bones, used their skulls as cups, and extracted bone marrow from the bodies for nutrients.
In some cases, the ancient humans appeared to have combined the human remains with animal remains, per the study.
Scientists had previously known of a few instances of cannibalism among this group, like those at Gough's Cave, where skull cups and other human bones were found, but had not known until now just how commonplace the practice was.
The researchers wrote that it is "undeniable that the frequency of cannibalistic cases among Magdalenian sites exceeds any incidence of this behaviour among earlier or later hominin groups, and suggests that mortuary cannibalism was a method Magdalenian people used to dispose of their deceased."
Dr. Silvia Bello, a paleoanthropologist and co-author of the study, said in a press release that the cannibalistic behavior was "not simply practiced out of necessity," but rather as a "funerary practice."
Study co-author Dr. William Marsh added that their findings offered a contextualization of Gough's Cave.
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Heck; one can wander into lots of VERY fancy buildings on this earth and eat human flesh and drink human blood any day of the week!
yOU'D THINK THINGS WOULD CHANGE; BUT IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THE COSTUMES DO...
Anyone want to buy a CAPSLOCK key?
I’ll let this one go REALLY cheap!
Yet look were to be at now!
Donner party?
Your table is now ready.
Nah...
that stuff you dig out from your toenails.
Now we know far back the phrase “Bite Me!” goes.
Ferdinand Feghoot always whetted my appetite.
While Mom would say, “All those children in China just WISH they had YOUR food!”
I see what you did here!
“Donner party?”
Yep, among many.
When Poland was oppressed mothers who were locked up with their babies were feeding their own fingers and limbs to children to keep them alive.
There are a lot of cases where it was necessary as a last option.
Let's run out for a bite of dinner!
Ha-ha-ha, you first!
I've read Heinlein, and I disagree with your definition of "grok":
That reminded me of the two Cannibals who going to eat this guy and the one cannibal said you start at the feet I’ll start at the head, after a few minutes the Cannibal asked how are you going the other one said I’m have a ball the other one said your going to fast.
In endocannibalism, typically or often, it was believed that the, "ritual consumption of parts of the human body enables the consumer to acquire something of the body's vital energy" (I.M. Lewis, "Religion in context, cults and charisma, P. 73, quoted in "Culture in the Domains of Law" edited by René Provost, P. 338) Which can include the consumption of enemies killed in war, whereby, "The eating of flesh, especially organs, serves to absorb the power of their victims and thus to enhanced their own strength." (Denis Tull, Ibid) All of which is consistent with the conclusion that endocannibalism recycles and regenerates social forces that are believed to be physically constituted in bodily substances or bones." (Peggy Reeves Sanday, Ibid) Through absorption and incorporation, the eaten is not simply devoured and annihilated, but rather becomes integrated in some way with the eater. Provost, Ibid, P. 339) )Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941) mentioned before, of questionable veracity also states,
The custom of eating bread sacramentally as the body of a god was practised by the Aztecs before the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards." The May ceremony is thus described by the historian Acosta [José de Acosta, SJ (1539 or 1540) Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America]: “
“The Mexicans in the month of May made their principal feast to their god Vitzilipuztli,...all the virgins came out of their convent, bringing pieces of paste compounded of beets and roasted maize,... They called these morsels of paste the flesh and bones of Vitzilipuztli...This ceremony and blessing (whereby they were taken for the flesh and bones of the idol) being ended, they honoured those pieces in the same sort as their god...
And this should be eaten at the point of day, and they should drink no water nor any other thing till after noon: they held it for an ill sign, yea, for sacrilege to do the contrary:...and then they gave them to the people in manner of a communion, beginning with the greater, and continuing unto the rest, both men, women, and little children, who received it with such tears, fear, and reverence as it was an admirable thing, saying that they did eat the flesh and bones of God, where-with they were grieved. Such as had any sick folks demanded thereof for them, and carried it with great reverence and veneration.”
...They believed that by consecrating bread their priests could turn it into the very body of their god, so that all who thereupon partook of the consecrated bread entered into a mystic communion with the deity by receiving a portion of his divine substance into themselves....
The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the magical conversion of bread into flesh, was also familiar to the Aryans of ancient India long before the spread and even the rise of Christianity. The Brahmans taught that the rice-cakes offered in sacrifice were substitutes for human beings, and that they were actually converted into the real bodies of men by the manipulation of the priest....At the festival of the winter solstice in December the Aztecs killed their god Huitzilopochtli in effigy first and ate him afterwards. - http://www.bartleby.com/196/121.html
Mormonism has an interest in this: http://archive.timesandseasons.org/2005/07/endocannibalism-in-sacrament-meeting/ ; http://olivercowdery.com/texts/1604Acos.htm
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