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1 timestamped hit 1 source reading 2 extracted notes Newest source: 2024-08-29, day precision Aliases: burial, burials, sky-burials

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Sky burial

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...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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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...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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Sky burial

Glossary

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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Speculative interpretation in the 2024-08-29 lecture

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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.

Sources: Reading Transcript YouTube

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