In <l03130305b693aab88db4@[203.62.227.104]>, on 01/24/01 at 08:46 AM,
Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>I believe there was a form in the
>Pacific and/or New Guinea endemic among folk in the habit of eating
>their dead enemies, especially their brain, so that they could 'absorb'
>their more admirable qualities.
Was I wrong in understanding that the practice was one of the ways of
*honoring* dead relatives for their best qualities, and thus absorbing
these qualities in the living?
les clark / edgewater, nj / usa
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