Burials and Ancestors are for the living: two quotes
“Humans bury not simply to achieve closure and effect a separation from the dead but also and above all to humanize the ground on which they build their worlds and found their histories…[Humanity] is a way of being mortal and relating to the dead. To be human is above all to bury.”
- Robert Pogue Harrison
“Ancestors are made from remembering them. Remembering creates a difference between the deadliness of corpses and the fruitfulness of ancestors. The ancestors respond by blessing their descendants with fertility and prosperity.”
- Unknown
