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Re: "Sacred" as a prehistoric adjec...
Aug 08, 2005, 10:53
I agree - although 'being good' is an old favourite isn't it?

What interests me is that 'sacred' might have meant something very, very different - perhaps something I might find unpalatable - for instance, and only for the purpose of speculation, suppose that long barrows were not the tombs of well loved, important ancestors but prisons for the dead souls of enemies. Some cultures give their dead the 'freedom' of a sky burial - a light lunch for the vultures - but you might want to possess or 'trap' other peoples' significant others to have power over their tribe. I just made that up - but if something like that were the case, it would give a quite different emotional tone to what sacred' meant wouldn't it?

ps perhaps the long bit of a long barrow was for sky burials..
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