The Yanomami Ash Ritual | When the Living Consume the Dead #History #Anthropology #DarkHistory

The Yanomami Ash Ritual | When the Living Consume the Dead #History #Anthropology #Culture #DarkHistory #Shorts

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the Yanomami people of Venezuela and Brazil practiced a sacred custom that outsiders find shocking — endocannibalism. When a loved one died, their body was cremated, and the ashes were mixed into plantain soup shared among the family.

To the Yanomami, this act wasn’t gruesome — it was spiritual continuity. By consuming the ashes, they believed the soul of the deceased lived on within them. To refuse meant abandoning that spirit. The ritual transformed death into connection, allowing the living to carry their ancestors inside themselves.

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