Re: [tied] Re: Religion

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 3797
Date: 2000-09-17

Mark O:
>Someone remind me. Isn't the raven something of a carrion eater?
>Gimbutas says many of the Old Europeans practiced excarnation with
>their dead (leaving them to the birds, a la the Zoroastrians).

Yes, I could swear I've read this too. If we use my Old European
mythological structure, we might be tempted to interpret the act as a way of
"re-animating" the spirit of the dead one - whether for purposes of an
afterlife or maybe even to initiate the process of reincarnation. Just a
thought, at least.

- gLeN
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