It's just to get the vultures to eat the bones, which they obviously can't do unless they're smashed. I doubt they'll
digest any of the actual bone even if they eat it, they'll just **** it out somewhere.
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Meh, we're all made of flesh anyway, not that big of a deal if it's in one or twenty pieces imo.
I didn't say it's a big deal, I said it's weird. As far as I know in most cultures hacking the body of a dead person like that would be considered at least unpleasant but often downright desecration. Cutting up the body or sitting there smashing bones and trying to make some sort of a mixture out of them which the vultures would eat is an unnecessary waste of time, why would they develop such a tradition when the typical cultural condition seems to be resistance to such a possibility?
I understand why feeding the flesh to vultures is a part of the ritual (because it's actually just inevitable when there are vultures around and you can't dig a grave or burn the body). But cutting the body is unnecessary and the bones they could just leave lying around. They could just stack them in a nice pile if they absolutely feel the need to mess with them. Going out of their way to cut up the body to the vultures and smash the bones and trick the vultures into eating them as well is weird.
Last edited by Vantek; 04-23-2010 at 04:17 AM.