• booty [he/him]
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      Just logically speaking it makes sense. Why would you kill someone (who will eventually die anyway) in order to make stuff out of their body parts?

      I don’t think anyone was intending to suggest these slaves were murdered specifically to make stuff out of their body parts, it’s more just that the fact that they made stuff out of slave body parts shows just how little regard they had for them. If you think of someone as a human you bury or cremate them, rather than carrying around their femur or whatever

      • mechwarrior2 [he/him]
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        1911 months ago

        idk that seems a bit prescriptive, i’m sure there are counter examples of like ancestor veneration, relics etc

        There was judicial mutilation (eye removal, amputation). Not sure of the relationship with these ritual objects, fair question though

        • Babs [she/her]
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          1911 months ago

          Relics and veneration are one thing, but according to the description these are from slaves and serfs, not exactly honored people in that society.

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            11 months ago

            Was just responding to booty’s last sentence, not everybody buries or cremates (sometimes you keep a person’s bone because you like them)

            In this case, yeah thats 100% serf

      • ItsPequod [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Also… That “Femur Dharma instrument” sure looks like a whip. Whips made from slave bones aren’t a good look, Tibet.

      • PigPoopBallsDotJPG [none/use name]
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        2411 months ago

        Tibetan funerals actually involve feeding you to the birds. Which is not to say ‘turning your dead skull into a relic’ isn’t intended to be disrespectful.