Cremation
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Also: cremating.
Danubians practiced mother worship and the religious rite of cremating the dead, for it was the custom of the mother cultists to burn their dead in stone huts. 80:8.5
The Nodites encouraged cremation as a means of combating cannibalism since it was once a common practice to dig up buried bodies and eat them. 89:5.14
for several thousands of years cremation of the dead was almost universal throughout Scandinavia. 80:9.4
Cremation was a later-day invention to prevent ghost trouble. 87:6.8
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