Two mysteries of creation -- life and death
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Their dead were buried, fearing their resurrection
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The placement of heavy stone slabs upon their graves seen as impeding their dead from returning
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Neanderthal corpses, tightly flexed, tied with thongs
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Interring their dead, performing burial rituals
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The defleshing of the body -- a symbolic act -- preventing it's spirit from haunting them
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Removing flesh to silence the destructive will of nature
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Removing flesh to see death making it's way into the carcass
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Removing flesh...
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Flesh, doomful like a rapid ghastly river
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Cheek muscles from children were filleted out,
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Tendons were sliced and skulls were cracked to remove brains
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Flaying will silence the vile enemy in the form of the Neanderthal ghost
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Allaying the dead spirits, who possess destructive powers to the continent
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(For thousands of years or more, the shell will see it's ghostly owner nevermore)
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(Series of rituals, praising the individual)
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Buried together, entire kin groups remained united after death
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Believed in an afterlife, a vision beyond death in their pre-abstract minds
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Artifacts and fauna
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Guaranteed health in the spirit world...
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Defleshing The Cadaver Before Burial, to protect the living from the undead
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Death itself, regarded as a kind of sleep
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Corpses arranged in sleeplike positions
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Death had become something more than a mere brutish fact of nature
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Leave the rotten meat witnessing the rebirth of an epoch
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Defleshing The Cadaver Before Burial
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