[marsh2]

Could sky burial be the elevating of bodies on platforms supported with posts - similar to some American Indian tribes?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #10

I think it is ritualizing the process of vultures consuming corpses in the wild, which happens naturally.

People who inhabit inhospitable environment where trees are scarce and whose life-style is nomadic appear to adopt this ritual.

In Siberian tundra, there are people called Chukchis. When a Chukchi dies, his body is carried out to the open plain, and its trunk is cut up open, so that any scavenging animals can easily devour the body.

[Drammach]

Could sky burial be the elevating of bodies on platforms supported with posts - similar to some American Indian tribes?

That was my first impression as well..

Thanks to easonc52 for the link.. (post#8)..
Well done explanation of Tibetan burial rites, and very informative..