Before there were burial rituals, there were cremations & before there were cremations there was The Art of Therianthropy. Now utilized for other than death rites.

WHEN THERE WERE NO TOOLS TO UTILIZE FOR DEATH RITUALS, THERE WAS THE EARTH’S NATURAL ASSISTANTS

Decomposing bodies could cause famine & disease on planetary surfaces. Famine affects crop vegetations & disease affects living life forms. It has been the reason to bury or cremate corpses before they begin to decompose so that the planet’s energies could recycle the rot.

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