8. Death Ritual – Amazonian Tribe
The Yanomami tribe does not hold the belief that death is a doorway to an afterlife. Instead, they fear that the dead person will be gone forever. In order to preserve their relationships and the life energy of the deceased, they use a ritual.
Their dead bodies are cremated and the ashes are then taken and mixed with fermented banana so it can be ingested by the tribespeople. To their way of thinking, this ritual allows their loved one to live on with them. We can’t imagine how they determined that fermented banana was the perfect complement to ashes, but that is the recipe.
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