What is this weird ancient custom (if it even exists)

[Cliche Guevara]

Recently I was told of this ancient civilization that threw all the deceased into the same body of water and they would bath and drink from this water for some reason. I found this fascinating and totally fucked up and would like to know more for some odd reason.

Help anyone?

[LiquidIce]

Uh, don't decomposing bodies produce toxic amines that are pretty damn... toxic? And smell like dead-shit?

And no, I've never heard of such a custom, but it seems doubtful they could drink the water for a longer period of time, I don't know how long a body decays to the points of releasing above mentioned toxins.

[MMATitan]

ummmm....... ganges river is kinda like that. hindu dies, they burn them, they toss their ashes into the water. They bathe in the water next day. Ganges is the most polluted shit ever and people bathe there daily. Its gross

but no I dont know about an ancient civ that does that shet.

[Costanza]

ummmm....... ganges river is kinda like that. hindu dies, they burn them, they toss their ashes into the water. They bathe in the water next day. Ganges is the most polluted shit ever and people bathe there daily. Its gross


thus the Indian civilization would be the ones who do that...

[:MAD:ijuana]

Never heard of it but it sounds pretty lulzy

[AngryOnion]

The Maya did that.But there is a lot of debate as too how many people they threw in the hole.
http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/mayan/TourEntrance.html

[Struwwelpeter]

those people were more civilized, intelligent, skillful and rational than European savages. my doctor told me to give my daughter chemotherapy when she was diagnosed with bone cancer, but I decided to have her drink water from the Los Angeles river in the South Central area. these natural shamanistic practices are comparable to modern medicine and the cultural practices of European-descent people, such as classical music and fine wine.

[Mantikore]

i would have said it was the Ganges as well, so it could be modern day hindus. though if i recall, hindus cremate their dead

though it could also be the indus valley civilisation, who are relatively close to that region.

[Cliche Guevara]

Im not sure this tradition is being described correctly at all. My source is my friend who saw it on an old VHS in Kazakhstan when he was a little kid. This is my understanding of this description. I could be hyperbolating. Angryonion I cant find any information on that tradition I described, it describes a cave where human sacrifices took place but nothing about bathing in the remains of your ancestors.

I think it was the Ganges.

[Struwwelpeter]

Well, whatever ancient "civilization" it was, you can rest assured it wasn't Europeans nor middle-easterners.

[slm33d]

Druids? I know they practiced human sacrifice. They were awesome .

[Struwwelpeter]

Talk about a civilization.

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[Cliche Guevara]

You mean society, not civilization. The Indian society, is still growing and evolving with the times. Although India is not completely "modernized" it is still nowhere near as Putrid as you make it out to be. There are River Dolphins that cruise the Ganges

http://assets.panda.org/img/ganges_river_dolphin_114116_125619.jpg

Those videos are accurate in that at point in time Indians have bathed in waters where the dead have been placed/cremated. However,again its nothing like a stagnating cesspool of human remain juice, its a flowing river.

Oh and Thanks for the wonderful video additions to the thread. :rolleyes:

[Struwwelpeter]

Recently I was told of this ancient civilization that threw all the deceased into the same body of water and they would bath and drink from this water for some reason. I found this fascinating and totally fucked up and would like to know more for some odd reason.

Help anyone?

You mean society, not civilization. The Indian society, is still growing and evolving with the times.

LOL, jackass.

Although India is not completely "modernized" it is still nowhere near as Putrid as you make it out to be. There are River Dolphins that cruise the Ganges

http://i30.tinypic.com/30tkobc.gif

Hey, there are alligators and humans in the sewers of northern America, but I wouldn't call them sanitary bathing/drinking areas.

I also like how you capitalize "putrid", we all know how much you brown people value filth.

[Azure]

There are River Dolphins that cruise the Ganges

The St Lawrence River is considered one of the most polluted in the world, yet it still has Beluga whales.

Shitty reasoning is shitty.

[Cliche Guevara]

Oh because I actually I thought my dolphin argument will have you all running to bathe in the Ganges, I just meant, its pretty clean in some parts (and so is the St Lawrence River I assume) and is hospitable to life and etc and not so full of pollution or rotting carcass that it cant support life.

Also, I said ancient civilization based on a hunch I had no idea it was a still active society of a civilization and it turned out it was Indian most likely. But I get it, ew Indian people bathe in nasty water. Thats great.

[Struwwelpeter]

*waits for Rust to show up and demonstrate how West's Encyclopedia of American Law proves, empirically, that the Ganges is not only the least polluted river on Earth, but in fact United States Pharmacopeia-grade sterile, as well as why the world would be a better place if everywhere looked like it, how becoming a communist homosexual pedophile Jew who slanders European-descent people/creations on the internet can change your life for the better in ten different ways, and why "dainty overachieving whiteboy motherfuckers" must be killed or enslaved by Jews and non-whites operating in power under a communist regime.*