11-03-2015, 02:45 AM
From my days as a cultural anthropology student - I remember lectures stressing ritual cannibalism was practiced to absorb the Mana - not so much to gain the power of the diseased - but to prevent the spirit of the slain warrior from continuing the battle from beyond the hereafter
north american indians dismembered the bodies of their slain enemies for the same reason - reinforcing the immigrants flawed belief system that indians were barbaric cultures fit for extermination
north american indians dismembered the bodies of their slain enemies for the same reason - reinforcing the immigrants flawed belief system that indians were barbaric cultures fit for extermination