Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism: Comparative Cosmologies and Centuries of Cosmic Consumption.
Death matters and the matters of death are initially, and to a large extent, the decaying flesh of the corpse. Cremation as a ritual practice is the fastest and most optimal way of dissolving the corpse's flesh, either by annihilation or purification, or a combination. Still, cremation was not...
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
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