87:2.10 The dead were supposed to use the ghosts of the tools and weapons that were theirs in life. To break an article was to "kill it," thus releasing its ghost to pass on for [[service]] in ghostland. [[Property]] [[sacrifices]] were also made by burning or [[burying]]. [[Ancient]] funeral wastes were enormous. Later races made [[paper]] models and substituted drawings for real objects and [[persons]] in these [[death]] [[sacrifices]]. It was a great advance in [[civilization]] when the [[inheritance]] of kin replaced the burning and [[burying]] of [[property]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois Iroquois] Indians made many reforms in funeral waste. And this [[conservation]] of [[property]] enabled them to become the most [[powerful]] of the northern red men. [[Modern]] man is not supposed to [[fear]] [[ghosts]], but [[custom]] is strong, and much [[terrestrial]] wealth is still consumed on funeral [[rituals]] and [[death]] [[ceremonies]]. | 87:2.10 The dead were supposed to use the ghosts of the tools and weapons that were theirs in life. To break an article was to "kill it," thus releasing its ghost to pass on for [[service]] in ghostland. [[Property]] [[sacrifices]] were also made by burning or [[burying]]. [[Ancient]] funeral wastes were enormous. Later races made [[paper]] models and substituted drawings for real objects and [[persons]] in these [[death]] [[sacrifices]]. It was a great advance in [[civilization]] when the [[inheritance]] of kin replaced the burning and [[burying]] of [[property]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois Iroquois] Indians made many reforms in funeral waste. And this [[conservation]] of [[property]] enabled them to become the most [[powerful]] of the northern red men. [[Modern]] man is not supposed to [[fear]] [[ghosts]], but [[custom]] is strong, and much [[terrestrial]] wealth is still consumed on funeral [[rituals]] and [[death]] [[ceremonies]]. |