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Heh - I've been reading some of Joseph Campbell's Oriental Mythology and he goes into some of the early burial rituals. It's truly fascinating stuff. Did you k
by patientplatypus 7y ago
Heh -
I've been reading some of Joseph Campbell's Oriental Mythology and he goes into some of the early burial rituals. It's truly fascinating stuff. Did you know that a lot of the early rulers of the area were buried with their entire retinue (10s or 100+ servants) alive? Including sometimes the ruler himself. Gruesome stuff, but also quite fascinating.
- TheRealClassic 7y ago"Including sometimes the ruler himself."? So sometimes the ruler was buried without themselves?
- mattmanser 7y agoI don't know, it's a bit like mass murders, we should expunge their murderous names from all records. Sod them and their misery inflicting monuments.
- patientplatypus 7y agoWell... I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Sure, there were murderous tyrants, but there were also the ancient Sumerians who executed their kings at the moment of ahem coitus. Something about completing the circle between life and death or some such. They were a weird wacky bunch, and some of them were terrible, but I think it's a more complicated picture than you paint.
- WoodenChair 7y ago> I don't know, it's a bit like mass murders, we should expunge their murderous names from all records. Sod them and their misery inflicting monuments. "Those who don't know history, are doomed to repeat it." It's important to understand who (by our standards) bad people were, why they were bad, and what circumstances enabled them to be bad. If you erase them, you can't learn from them.
- mattmanser 7y agoDoesn't mean we have to remember their names though, which is what they wanted.