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[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

I have heard that the serfs/slaves were not killed specifically to make those. I have not checked that claim. Can somebody weigh in on that?

[-] booty@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago

Just logically speaking it makes sense. Why would you kill someone (who will eventually die anyway) in order to make stuff out of their body parts?

I don't think anyone was intending to suggest these slaves were murdered specifically to make stuff out of their body parts, it's more just that the fact that they made stuff out of slave body parts shows just how little regard they had for them. If you think of someone as a human you bury or cremate them, rather than carrying around their femur or whatever

[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

idk that seems a bit prescriptive, i'm sure there are counter examples of like ancestor veneration, relics etc

There was judicial mutilation (eye removal, amputation). Not sure of the relationship with these ritual objects, fair question though

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

Relics and veneration are one thing, but according to the description these are from slaves and serfs, not exactly honored people in that society.

[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Was just responding to booty's last sentence, not everybody buries or cremates (sometimes you keep a person's bone because you like them)

In this case, yeah thats 100% serf

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