Show threadJens NotroffNov 8, 2022

To this day, the practice of #SkyBurials remains an often referenced cultural phenomenon in the discussion of "special" (i.e. "odd" in our western / Global North perception) #burial customs:

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/03/world/lirong-journal-tibetans-and-vultures-keep-ancient-burial-rite.html via @nytimes

Lirong Journal; Tibetans, and Vultures, Keep Ancient Burial Rite

Tibetans have three principal ways to return their dead to earth; in sky burial, body is dismembered and fed to vultures; in water burial, corpse is cut into small pieces and fed to fish; third way, cremation, is too expensive for poorest Tibetans; photo; map (M)