Re: OT: Chinese zither

--- Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> wrote:
> --- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:
>
> > >Of course, there's plenty of room for sacred
> > >drums made out of the skulls of beloved
> > >ancestors.
> >
> > Sorry, not these people!  They are so concerned
> > about not defiling a dead
> > body that they won't even undress it to put on
> > new clothes for burial.  A
> > person is buried in whatever they happened to
> > die in.  And in war, they
> > consider it their duty, as civilized people, to
> > keep guard over the bodies
> > of their slain enemies and prevent the bodies
> > from being defiled by carrion
> > beasts until a delegation from the enemy can
> > come and claim the
> > bodies.  It's a rather maladaptive strategy in
> > warfare, but it is important
> > to them to act in a civilized manner.
>
The Graavgaaln (who I haven't mentioned for a looong
time) have a saying -- Even an enemy deserves a proper
burrial, but a traitor can rot in the sun.  Burrial is
the one of the Twelve Rites and is one of two that all
Graavgaaln share.  The Rites are: Birth, Naming,
Firstblood, Puberty, Casting, The Ordeal, Graduation,
Adulthood, Marriage, Firstbirth, Burrial and Memorial.
 Even children too weak to survive till they are named
and those outcasted before naming for obvious
deformities are given the rite of burrial.  Only a
traitor may be denied this basic rite.  To have one of
their own be classed lower than a deformed infant is
quite a humiliation for the surviving family and
spouse.


> Wow. Daine don't see it as defilement to clean up
> and dress their beloved dead appropirately. And
> unless they're in a hurry, would see it as
> something less than dignified to bring an end to
> the body in tatty, blood-n-guts spattered
> clothes.
>
I'm not sure how the Graavgaaln burry.  I know it is
with great dignity and uppercaste strangers will often
attend the burials of Nameless infants as an act of
charity to lend the proper solemnity to the rite.  But
I doubt the Graavgaaln would concider the presence of
blood-n-guts spattering to detract one whit from the
solemnity of the occasion -- especialy in the burial
of a warroir.

> > >Daine hunters don't mind tackling such
> > >beasties at times!
> >
> > Nor do these people.  Hey, one of those
> > creatures carries a load of good
> > beef, and the horns are very useful as well.
> > It's worth a little danger.
>
> Naturally! Oliphaunts and hairy rhinoceros as
> well. Amongst other things.
>
> Padraic.
>
I ought to post some about Graavgaaln wild life.
Think smilodons and brontotheriums and footlong
tranchula-wasps.

Adam

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