From: Alexander Stolbov
Message: 11599
Date: 2001-11-30
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Burial customs in the countries around Denmark
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> And I don't think that people who are found in the bogs have
> been "buried" in the ordinary sense of the word. The alternative
> theory, of course, is that they were criminals, but consider the
> unpleasant scenario of an invasion, counter-invasion against the
> Heruli etc. Who ends up in the bog then? Hm!
...
[A]
I can add one more speculation:
I've read that this person had hands (fingers) which witnessed about his
high social position. He could be a priest, for example.
The mummification is a way to keep the body maximally integral for the life
after death.
If some Danish bogs are so remarkable, that they keep bodies for eternity
without such complex operations as removing brain from the skull etc. why
not to use this for burying the most worthy people when they are ready to
meet gods? Suffocation seems to be the best way of mortification for this
purpose.
It would be very interesting to check whether minimal additional embalming
was used.
The questions:
Were numerous dead bodies of different animals found in the same bog?
Were they preserved as perfect as the Tollund man?
Were any objects found together with that man?
Alexander