[Sca-cooks] Fw: Response to Crusades and cannibalism

[Nick Sasso]

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From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
<<<SNIP>>> However,
> > the preponderance of the evidence right now is that New World
Native
> > Americans DID eat people. And the practice occurred from time to
time
> > elsewhere as well. The bottom line is that you are not going to get
an
> > honest, open discussion of the topic today because asserting that
people
> > eating was common will get you jumped on in a big way in academic
circles,
> > maybe fired, if you don't have tenure. Sad, but these are the times
we
> live  in. Paul

Don't even START the conversation that the Christian tradition of the
last supper is in the least bit cannibalistic, even though there is
language to the affect that what he fed them had become his body and
blood.  The Jehovah' Witnesses around here hate me for that one :o)

Several cultures have been written of that had rituals of consuming the
flesh of chieftains or powerful or respected enemies in order to obtain
the desired traits that were thought to be carried in the flesh and
blood.  Similar beliefs seem to run through spiritual traditions
regarding the animals and plants as well . . . eat it, and you become
like it . . . you are what you eat?  Hmmmmmmm . . . . .

pacem et bonum,
niccolo difrancesco
(speaking in generalities from Anthropology text book memories)