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the planet's oldest ritual: hiding the dead so the living can carry them forever
means The act of placing a dead body in the ground, a tomb, or the sea, usually as part of a funeral ritual.
from From the Old English verb 'byrgan,' to bury or hide, which traces back to a Proto-Germanic root meaning to shelter or protect — a cousin of 'borough' and 'borrow,' all carrying the same buried sense of covering and keeping safe. The '-al' ending arrived later in English, turning the act of burying into the noun 'burial.' At its core, then, to bury is not to discard but to guard.
- deep time
- Neanderthals buried their dead 60,000 years ago
- land math
- cemeteries occupy roughly 1 million acres in America
- sky alternative
- Tibetan sky burial feeds corpses to vultures
- green return
- human composting now legal in several US states
- upright dead
- some cultures bury bodies standing, facing east
tutankhamun's tomb — pharaoh buried in valley of the kings, egypt, 1323 bce with 5,000+ artifacts
westminster abbey — burial site of 17 monarchs and famous figures like charles darwin, london since 1066
taj mahal — mausoleum built by mughal emperor shah jahan for his wife mumtaz mahal, agra india 1653