#MAN. bruh. never connected shiva wearing corpse ash with seeing him constantly dressed in like dessicated bird wings and | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

abyssalpriest · 9 months ago

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oough. god. reading a paper review of a book. never fucking connected levs constant use of animal body parts like bones in (other cultures), sky burial being really sacred to him, and the cremation ground associations in india. shit man. thats a fucking whole ass connected triangle i never saw before.

post on that now brewing

#''the use of skulls corpses and animal parts for magical intentions (...) indicates the existence of a group of specialists #who operated in cremation grounds (...)'' nah hold on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nah hold on!!!!!!!!#MAN. bruh. never connected shiva wearing corpse ash with seeing him constantly dressed in like dessicated bird wings and #pelts and carved bones and using animal skin drums - like the drums and pelts i knew were shiva things but!#ramblings //#and the fact its not burial its cremation grounds - the processing and destruction-recreation of dead bodies! bruh!#Lord Death //#no wonder thats such a central name/epithet of his that i knew him as Death before i knew him as....... anything else #............. literally i made my first oc based on him (accidentally) and he was called /Shi/ like lmfao ok.

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