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  meish dot org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The meat is said to be the flesh of the deceased, and not of the animal[10]
For Arens, however, the discussion of the symbolism (historical or otherwise) of human flesh-eating is not the core of his critique of the study of cannibalism as an anthropological pursuit.
As abhorrent as it may be to consider the act of eating human flesh, it is important to remember that the symbolic and ritual value of the practice in all likelihood far outweighed the consumed quantity.
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 CHURCH FATHERS: On the Resurrection of the Flesh (Tertullian)
And the vessel is the flesh, because this was made of clay by the breath of the divine afflatus; and it was afterwards clothed with "the coats of skins," that is, with the cutaneous covering which was placed over it.
And although the apostle is well aware that the flesh does nothing of itself which is not also imputed to the soul, he yet deems the flesh to be "sinful;" lest it should be supposed to be free from all responsibility by the mere fact of its seeming to be impelled by the soul.
Their specious inquiry concerned the flesh, whether or not it would be subject to marriage after the resurrection; and they assumed the case of a woman who had married seven brothers, so that it was a doubtful point to which of them she should be restored.
www.newadvent.org /fathers/0316.htm   (13345 words)

  
 Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
of life by the theory of an indwelling and practically immortal soul is one which the savage does not confine to human beings but extends to the animate creation in general.
Accordingly the savage makes it a rule to spare the life of those animals which he has no pressing motive for killing, at least such fierce and dangerous animals as are likely to exact a bloody vengeance for the slaughter of one of their kind.
Hence it is a custom with some savages to spare crocodiles, or rather only to kill them in obedience to the law of blood feud, that is, as a retaliation for the slaughter of men by crocodiles.
www.bartleby.com /196/pages/page518.html   (332 words)

  
 Egypt: Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The earliest known example of human sacrifice may perhaps be found in Predynastic burials in the south of Egypt, dated to the Naqada II Period.
The human heads on the tombs of Osiris probably represent a tradition that, when Osiris was buried, human sacrifices were offered at his tomb for this or for some similar purpose.
There is evidence of human sacrifice in ancient Egypt during the 1st Dynasty, for the rulers and rich of the time.
www.touregypt.net /featurestories/humansac.htm   (3001 words)

  
 International Vegetarian Union - A Buddhist Perspective on Vegetarianism
The main reason is "mercy", and because we "cannot bear to eat the flesh of living creatures." And our belief in karma tells us that we must eventually suffer the consequences of our evil actions.
Being unable to bring ourselves to eat the flesh of these poor creatures is an expression of mercy.
A person who habitually eats pure food keeps his body and mind in a pure state; this follows of course, and is beyond argument.
www.ivu.org /religion/articles/buddhist.html   (1703 words)

  
 Cow Dhamma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
One would not eat the flesh of one’s relatives if they are killed by others — one will not relish eating their meat at all.
Similarly, if there were such a custom, people would eat their own father and mother with relish, or they would enjoy the flesh of their own sons and daughters.
O Kassapa, you who eat any food given by others, which is well-prepared, nicely arranged, pure and appealing; he who enjoys such food made with rice, eats [rotting flesh that emits a] stench.
www.aimwell.org /Books/Library/Ledi/Cows/cows.html   (6928 words)

  
 Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice
Finally, in various pre-nation-state and tribal societies, members of the family were encouraged to eat specific parts of their dead relatives as a sign of respect or in order to partake of the deceased's wisdom, courage, or other positive traits (endocannibalism).
Eating someone who has died in order to survive is incorporating their substance, and it is quite possible to compare this with a graft.
Moreover, in life, the human body and form are considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that animates us all.
samvak.tripod.com /cannibalism.html   (2068 words)

  
 UCLA Incident Called Hate Crime - Muslim Prayer Mats Defiled At Worship Center "disgusting crime"
The abstention from eating pork is one of the steps taken by Islam to practise hygiene and to attain purity of soul.
Amongst all animal flesh, pork is the favoured cradle of harmful germs.
In human beings, serum cholesterol is not dependent on the intake of cholesterol in the diet, but depends upon the proportion of animal fats in the diet, which elevate the beta-lipo protein level in the blood.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/901522/posts   (2525 words)

  
 CHAPTER 14: MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY: RUDIMENTARY ORGANS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Any one may of course deny that the teeth in either case have been adapted for tearing flesh, through the natural selection of successive variations; but if this be admitted in the one case, it is unintelligible to me that it should be denied in the other.
The mocked forms, which always abound in numbers, must habitually escape destruction to a large extent, otherwise they could not exist in such swarms; and a large amount of evidence has now been collected, showing that they are distasteful to birds and other insect-devouring animals.
The mocking forms, on the other hand, that inhabit the same district, are comparatively rare, and belong to rare groups; hence they must suffer habitually from some danger, for otherwise, from the number of eggs laid by all butterflies, they would in three or four generations swarm over the whole country.
www.human-nature.com /darwin/origin/chap14.htm   (11967 words)

  
 Cannibalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Compared to Eurasian civilizations Bergonians seemed obsessed with teshuacrei, but this is because eating someone was a common metaphor for the ultimate evil, and because teshuacrei was a figurative as well as a literal term.
Three ancient chronicles describe a curious sort of ritual feuding between two warriors that culminated in a contest to the death, with the winner partaking of the flesh of the loser and sacrificing the remains to the bloody gods in a pyre.
According to legends told for thousands of years thereafter, Bilac was a Sodom and Gomorrah, known not just for its residents' extreme licentiousness and limitless paraphilia, but for their eating of human flesh.
www.bergonia.org /cannibalism.htm   (1355 words)

  
 The Cannibal Islands by R.M. Ballantyne : Arthur's Classic Novels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The eating of human beings, or, as it is called, cannibalism, is no idle tale invented by travellers.
Here the bodies, which had been carefully painted with vermilion and soot, were handed out and placed, sitting up, in front of the king's house; but before proceeding to their loathsome banquet they enacted scenes in which there was a dreadful mingling of the ludicrous and the horrible.
That the flesh belonging to them had been eaten was evident, for that which remained had manifestly been dressed by fire, and in the gristles at the ends were the marks of the teeth which had gnawed them.
arthurwendover.com /arthurs/ball/canbli10.html   (21705 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Monothelitism and Monothelites
The Monophysites were habitually represented by their Catholic opponents as denying all reality to the human nature of Christ after the union.
Here the Divine action is distinguished from the human actions of touching or speaking, though it uses them, but through this close connexion the word theandric is not out of place for the whole complex act, while the Divine action as exercised through the human may be called formally theandric, or divino-human.
Heraclius was doubtless very anxious to unite all to the Catholic Church, for the country was greatly weakened by the dissensions of the heretics among themselves, and by their bitterness against the official religion.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10502a.htm   (5682 words)

  
 Cannibalism in Indonesia
The Sea Dyaks scoop out the brains by way of the nostrils, and then hang up the head to dry in the smoke of a wood fire – usually the fire which is maintained anyway for the cooking of all the food for the members of the tribe.
Should their chieftain, or the leader of the expedition, feel the desire for human flesh, then one of the followers is killed.
The flesh is always eaten raw, or grilled at the place of punishment, and the use of palm wine and other strong liquors is strongly interdicted at these judicial feasts, where the men alone have the right to be present.
www.heretical.com /cannibal/indonesi.html   (1415 words)

  
 Summary VII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A cake of bread was sold for 15 dinanir, (the dinar = 10s.), a horse was sold for 20, a dog for 5, a cat for 3, and an egg for 1 dinar.
When all the animals were eaten men began to eat each other, and human flesh was sold in public.
Parents killed and cooked their own children, and a, wife was found eating her husband raw.
www.earth-history.com /Egypt/egypt-gods-12summary7.htm   (1462 words)

  
 Cultural Aspects of Foods, Food Resource, Oregon State University
They were thinking about eating the wonderfully exotic foods of Mexico, but their words were concerned with the nature of cannibalism and its influence on modern Mexican cuisine.
Calvino has done an admirable job in describing the process of imagining the flavor of human flesh, the application of ideas about culture, and religious responsibility to make an educated guess about an unknown foodstuff.
Seabrook spoke with members of the GuerÚ tribe, and after disposing of such issues as the source of the human flesh (Seabrook was not entirely comfortable with the idea that the GuerÚ had speared their victims during a raid on another village), asked a basic question: Why should they eat
food.oregonstate.edu /ref/culture/allen.html   (5518 words)

  
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Studies in anthropology suggest differing motives for perpetuation of the archaic custom, besides situations in which a people's historically available diet betrays endemic protein deficiencies, or the exceptional times when consumption of human flesh is a rationalized response to the dramatic circumstances of extreme, survival-threatening deprivation.
Some writers even contend that injestion of fresh human brains contributed to the rapid mushroom-like evolution of our higher cortical hemispheres, and a case is made for the transmission of cytoplasmic genetic material by this method.
Cannibalism is the fundamental form of institutionalized human aggression--it is impossible to comprehend the true nature of human culture without understanding its role in human history.
www.csus.edu /indiv/v/vonmeierk/2-03ASFA.html   (4305 words)

  
 The Freethinker's Text-Book, Part II.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
And he appeared within, not like flesh which is burnt, but as bread that is baked, or as gold and silver glowing in a furnace.
Upon the whole, it is impossible, from the mass of evidence already adduced, to avoid the conclusion that the early Christians, in their Agapae, were really guilty of the execrable vices with which they were so often charged, and for which they were sentenced to death.
But, as the flesh decays, a certain kind of worm is produced, which, being nourished by the juices of the dead bird, brings forth feathers.
www.anandgholap.net /AB_Freethinker's_Text-Book_Part_II.htm   (13657 words)

  
 The Cynic's Sanctuary
Everything you hold dear is contained in an oblong metallic crate that attracts funnel clouds from the heavens with depressing regularity.
After three years of grim and stultifying labor, you're still not sure what a "die" is, and you have no desire to find out.
Your co-workers are surly and derisive; they refer to you as "the gringo" and cast menacing glances in your direction as you eat your lunch (a greasy salami sandwich on sliced white bread) alone.
www.i-cynic.com /september_99.asp   (1801 words)

  
 EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
When humans speak to each other, the formation and use of language units is so regular that it almost seems to be that there is an agreement between the speakers.
All humans encounter and experience the physical world through the same senses (even if one or more is missing in an individual through birth, disease, or accident) and all of us experience in essentially the same way.
Even human beings of different cultures and at different times think in alternative Paradigms, or patterns of thought, lists of essential questions and agreed-upon solutions, sets of implicit assumptions, allowable tools for problem-solving, and definitions of what things are in the universe of discourse.
www.magicdragon.com /EmeraldCity/extraterrestrials/alien.html   (18458 words)

  
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Some peculiar beings called men had found out, it seemed, that the flesh of the kangaroo was very good eating; and once having realized this, they had no pity, but, whenever they wanted kangaroo flesh, hunted the animals and killed as many as they possibly could.
Sometimes he ate a part of the flesh, but not always; he was somewhat fastidious, and so that he had the warm blood, he more often than not left the carcass for the wolves and hyenas, or any other animal who cared to have it.
If he had gone home his human friends might have taken them out for him, and so saved his life; but he was frightened and bewildered, and, like all animals when in pain or trouble, his first thought was to go away to some quiet place and hide himself in his misery.
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During the night he caused this beer to be poured out into the meadows of the Four Heavens, and when Hathor came she saw the beer with human blood and mandrakes in it, and drank of it and became drunk, and paid no further attention to men and women.
Those who took part in these festivals of Hathor and Ra drank beer in very large quantities, and under the influence of the "beautiful women," i.e., the priestesses, who were supposed to resemble Hathor in their physical attractions, the festal celebrations degenerated into drunken and licentious orgies.
When Ra had made a heaven for himself, and had arranged for a continuance of life on the earth, and the welfare of human beings, he remembered that at one time when reigning on earth he had been bitten by a serpent, and had nearly lost his life through the bite.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/7egpt10.txt   (17671 words)

  
 Fed-Soc.org - Unlawful Belligerency and its Implications Under International Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Thus, whether the Taliban complied with this condition will be determined based upon whether they carried their arms in a manner that clearly distinguished them as combatants, and potential targets for their adversaries.
This, admittedly, is a difficult requirement to meet in a society where males habitually carry firearms about their persons.
Dogs were eating human flesh and going mad and soon the smell became intolerable," said a male Tajik who managed to escape the massacre [52].
www.fed-soc.org /Publications/Terrorism/unlawfulcombatants.htm   (8566 words)

  
 Stories By English Authors by H. Rider Haggard and Others : Arthur's Classic Novels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Well, I got her down to the waggon, and gave her a 'tot' of Cape smoke, and then, as soon as it was ready, poured about a pint of beef- tea down her throat, made from the flesh of a blue vilder-beeste I had killed the day before, and after that she brightened up wonderfully.
A swarthy Kroot-boy from Cape Coast laid the cat on his brown shoulders right willingly, for he also was an enemy of Sooka's; and in a few minutes the poor fellow's flesh was cut and scored as if by a knife.
Bransome amused himself by getting out his rifle and firing fancy shots at Sooka, still tied to the post; that is, he tried to put the bullets as close to the poor wretch as he could without actually wounding him.
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 Rataplan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
They are busy in the spring getting ready for the little baby squirrels; busy all the summer attending to them and feeding them; busy all the autumn collecting their winter stores, and busy all the winter finding their food and teaching their children the manners and customs of squirreldom.
The other lions would never go out of their way if they could get an antelope or a jaguar, because they were easy to strike down and were very good eating; but to obtain a buffalo or a giraffe meant running long distances, and this is what a lion does not care to do.
He was not happy, however, and when he was nearly there gave one of his piercing cries—something between a wild scream and a dismal howl —a cry which, to his bewilderment and surprise, called forth a perfect chorus of screams, shrieks and howls which startled him almost to death.
www.blackmask.com /books101c/rtpln.htm   (21701 words)

  
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They are the finest, bravest-looking ne- groes I saw in the interior, and eating human flesh seems to agree with them, though I afterwards saw other Fan tribes whose members had not the fine air of these mountaineers.
Some bore on their shoulders the terri- ble war-axe, one blow of which quite suf- fices to split a human skulL Some of these axes, as well as their spears and other iron-work, were beautifully orna- mented with scroll-work, and wrought in graceful lines and curves which spoke well for their artisans.
And of course money to despise it, and she naturally it was not strange that, at such a moment hesitated to deprive Willie of the very of dejection, her thoughts should revert best substitute for happiness that has ever to the man whom she loved and whom it been discovered.
lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/livn-2/livn0186.sgm   (20571 words)

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