A ritual stance toward hunted animals: dancing with, honoring, apologizing to, and maintaining harmony with them before taking meat.
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Animal tribute
A ritual stance toward hunted animals: dancing with, honoring, apologizing to, and maintaining harmony with them before taking meat.
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Jiang says one interpretation of Catalhoyuk hunting images is animal tribute: dancing with or respecting animals before killing them to maintain harmony with nature.
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"...they're really doing is dancing. Because they are worshipping. Or paying tribute to these animals they are about to kill. Or they are trying...."
"...the spirit world. Okay? So this is a way of paying tribute. Or respecting. The animals they're about to kill or about to hunt...."
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