• meditations on death - 7

    From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, March 31, 2018 16:40:20
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    Thang thusly plagiarised:

    How American woodland Indian tribes such as the Iroquois treated their
    war captives:

    "Captured warriors were often subject to preliminary torture during
    the return journey of a war party. When the party arrived at the home
    village, the prisoners were beaten by running the gauntlet into the
    village. At a council, the warrior prisoners who survived these
    initial torments were distributed to families who had recently lost
    men in warfare. After these prisoners were ritually adopted and given
    the name of the family’s dead member, they were usually tortured to
    death over several days. The victim was expected to display great
    fortitude during these torments—taunting his torturers and expressing contempt for their efforts. When the prisoner was dead, some parts of
    his body were eaten (usually including his heart)."

    Keeley, War Before Civilization, 84.

    Note: Of the approximately 230 tribal groups that Keeley studied
    throughout the world he found only 8 “that sometimes spared male adult captives for any reason” (213).

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