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A death ritual in which the body is exposed to vultures, whose consumption becomes tribute to the mother goddess before bones and skulls return to the home.
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Sky burial
A death ritual in which the body is exposed to vultures, whose consumption becomes tribute to the mother goddess before bones and skulls return to the home.
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Jiang says sky burial combined mother-goddess worship with ancestor worship: vultures consumed the flesh as tribute, bones returned to the house, and skulls remained in the living room for ancestor worship.
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"...put that person's dead body out in the open. It's a sky burial. Right? You go to Tibet, they have sky burials. The vultures..."
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