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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2009-05-01 04:39 pm
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"The earth screams for more blood when you bury someone inside [it]."

--Went home a little early, am watching an episode of Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein*. It's a tribe in ... New Guinea, maybe? (I watched the beginning a few days ago and forgot) that used to mummify their dead and place them on a hilltop overlooking the village, and the quote above is how a woman explains their revulsion at being buried.







* Tends to host archaeology and history-oriented shows. I haven't looked him up so I can't speak to any of his qualifications except for looking damn good in a fedora at an archaeological site, which is probably very high on his resume.

[identity profile] only-spiders.livejournal.com 2009-05-02 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoooooooa. I'm gonna save that quote.