Strange treatment with the dead

Bringing the body to the top of the mountain to eat vultures, to put the body on a beautiful boat and push it to the sea are two of the ways of farewell to the dead that mankind has ever done.

Strange burial practices in the world

1. Save the body on the tower

Persian Martyrs put corpses into tall towers to give carnivorous animals.(Artwork of flatrock.org.nz.)

Believers of Persian Martyrs (a religion that appeared in Iran from about a thousand years BC and Muslim annihilation in the 10th century AD) believed that the human body was pure. Therefore, people should not pollute the dead body with cremation or burial. Instead, they took the dead body to a high tower for storage. These towers are often placed in high places (such as hills, mountains). People live to confirm without any protection so animals can eat meat.

2. Put the body on the tree

Many tribes put dead bodies on trees or hanging on branches.(Photo: virginmedia.com.)

Tribes in many parts of the world believe that dead bodies should be placed high above the ground. Some studies show that tribes in Australia, Canada, the United States and Siberia put dead bodies on trees for storage.

In Tibet, the Nyingchi and Kangbei people have a different tradition from many other places. When the children unfortunately die early, they are hung on the tree (carpentry) instead of burying under the ground. The bodies of babies will be washed and put in a small wooden box before hanging on the tree.

Boys are hung on high, and little girls get lower at the bottom. Parents or family members often hang their coffins on tall trees growing in the forest or at the fork of the river. They believed that by doing so, their souls would easily fly to heaven and not return to destroy, harm other children.

The bodies of babies are hung on trees to be able to go to heaven easily.(Photo: Strange.)

3. Burial on the ship

A Viking ship.(Photo: Livescience.)

Viking life and death (living in Northern Europe in the Late Stone Age) is associated with the sea. After his death, the rich people were put on board with food, jewelry, weapons, slaves, animals to enjoy new life in the afterlife. The ships can be buried in the ground, burned or pushed to the sea.

4. Cremation paint

A mountain range in Tibet.(Photo: redspokes.co.uk.)

In Tibet (China), the majority of the dead are buried in rocky areas. But some families put the body of a loved one to the top of the mountain and let the vulture eat meat. People even sprinkled cereal powder and milk on the corpse to ensure that vultures would not ignore the body, so that every piece of bone of loved ones would go to heaven with birds.

5. Buried in mud

A corpse is preserved intact in the swamp.(Photo: civilization.ca.)

Many adventurers or tourists are in trouble when crossing the swamps in northern Europe and grasping their broken bones buried in the mud forever. But in the Middle Ages, a part of the dead in Europe was buried in the swamp. Fortunately, the chemicals in the swamp make the meat non-biodegradable. As a result, scientists today can know many things about ancient people.

6. Burial

People in Solomon living in the South Pacific waters traditionally did not bury their dead. They put the dead body in deserted places to eat all flesh (burial). The skull was then collected and brought to a small island called Nusa Kunda, like the cemetery area.

The skull on the island is often grouped in common graves, built simply of wood, stone and coral reefs found on the island. Each village often has one or two graves like that to bury members.

A grave is buried in the form of a funeral glass.(Photo: Strange.)

7. Legend

Cung Hien 's barren land of Sichuan province, China has a cemetery formed on the face of steep cliffs with more than 100 mysteries suspended in the air. The legend (hanging coffin) is an ancient burial practice of minorities, derived from the Bo tribe that disappeared about 500 years ago.

The craggy coffins cliff up in China.(Photo: Strange.)

8. The custom of cannibalism

In Aghoris in northern India, is also a small branch of Hinduism. The people here are considered to be familiar with the custom of eating the dead , the way they eat is also very special, they do not eat meat to eat but eat live meat directly with salad. People here believe that cannibalism can live in eternity.

9. Eat ashes of the deceased

The Yanomami tribe is an indigenous Indian ethnic group in the Amazon jungle region on the border between Venezuela and Brazil with a population of about 20,000 people and organizes to live in about 200–250 villages and form a large tribal group. most in the Amazon forest, they live relatively isolated.

This tribe kept eating and drinking ashes of the dead. This tribe believed there was the existence of the spirit world. When people in the tribe died, they tried to keep the soul of that person to stay. There was no other way, to make the body of the dead be reconciled with the body of the living, so when the tribe died, the villagers would proceed to burn the body and eat ashes.