https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/tibetan-sky-burials-are-super-creepy.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tibetan-sky-burials-are-super-creepy A collection of oddities that includes weird places, strange people, bizarre events and other odd stuff from all around the world Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:54:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/tibetan-sky-burials-are-super-creepy.html#comment-323506 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:09:59 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/?p=12598#comment-323506 @Dianne Wyss: The mongolian herders stopped doing this after the communism came to mongolia in 1940s.

]]> https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/tibetan-sky-burials-are-super-creepy.html#comment-47520 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:52:12 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/?p=12598#comment-47520 The Mongolian herders also “bury” this way. They view the Sky as God – they view wolves as the only animal able to leap into the sky and as such they view wolves as the souls of their ancestors. they taken their dead unbound on a wagon up into the mountains on a rocky (there is no other type) trail – where ever the corpse falls off – it is left — the wolves come along to devour it. From the interesting allegorical book “Wolf Totem”

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