Partial burial

Under a partial burial to various forms will be understood the body burial , in which the body is not buried a human or animal body as a whole (ie, "in one piece").

Partial burial of people

Almost every conceivable treatment of corpses has been described by ethnologists, historians, and archaeologists. Common forms of partial burial are:

• Separate funeral
  • Heart burial
  • Head burial
  • Mos teutonicus
• Secondary burial

Partial burials can be undertaken for a wide variety of religious or practical reasons, including a partial burial mentioned in the Bible . In the 1st book of Samuel the cremation of the bodies of King Saul and his sons is described while the bones were buried under the tamarisk of Jabesh (1 Sam 31,1 EU ).

Partial burial of animals

Partial burials of animals go back to ancient Egypt , where animal mummies were offered as offerings . For this purpose, traders offered ready-made mummies for sale, which often only contained a single bone of the animal in question. Researchers now assume that this was not a case of fraud, as the Egyptians believed that a single part could also represent the whole.

Partial burials of horses used to be carried out in Hungary. Besides the dead rider, not the whole horse was buried, but only his head and shin (both in the peeled skin).

Trivia

• A post-mortem organ donation also results in a partial burial, as the donor's body is buried without the donated organs.
• In the Canadian film Fido - Good dead are hard to find , partial burial is practiced in the form of head burial. This is the only way to prevent the dead from becoming zombies .
• A rather bizarre form of partial burial is the reenitalation of the fun religion Church of the Holy Vagina . The genitals of the deceased are amputated and preserved in ethanol .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Equestrian Sports in Hungary , accessed April 8, 2008
2. ↑ KDHV> Reingenitalation ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

literature

• A. Hermann: Dissecting and combining: Religious history for mummification. In: Numen 3/1956, pp. 81-96.

See also

• Funeral rite
• Corpse preservation