q       Zulu culture burned their dead’s personal belongings or build a ring of fire around their dead to keep the evil spirits from coming back to haunt the living.

q       Burial practices in some African tribes went as far as mixing ground bones of the dead with their food.

q       Queen Artemisia was known to have mixed the ashes of her beloved dead with her wine. 

q       Herodotus, the great Greek historian wrote of how the Calatians honored their dead: by eating them!  

Fear of the unknown and the inevitable have led man into devising ways of bringing about his own catharsis. And in this world where rain, sun, birth and death take its course according to its own appointed time, man can only do so much as to placate the force behind what is unforeseen and mysterious.