Paper 89 - Square Circles Publishing

SOURCE OR PARALLEL URANTIA PAPER 89There seems to have been an idea amongprimitive races that by eating the flesh orsome portion of the body recognized asthe seat of power, or by drinking theblood of a human being, the person sodoing absorbs the nature or life of the onesacrificed (S&K 1237).Blood drinking became common,§293. Survivals and Legends. (Sumner &Keller 1243)[Compare first row of 89:5.15 re “the concoction ofvarious medicines from parts of the human body”.]Cannibalism becomes narrowed downin practice, becoming a prerogative onlyof men,of chiefs, of shamans, and it takes on thequality of the antique and traditional, theholy, solemn, ritual, and judicial (S&K1243).and it was customary to mix the “edible”parts of the body with medicines.89:5.12 4. It became limited to men;women were forbidden to eat humanflesh.89:5.13 5. It was next limited to thechiefs, priests, and shamans.89:5.14 6. Then it became taboo amongthe higher tribes. The taboo onman-eating originated in Dalamatia andslowly spread over the world.[The Tauaré burn their dead. The ashes arepreserved in holly reeds and at each meal some ofthem are consumed (S&K IV 668).]Where the English government set out tostop [human sacrifices among the Bella-Coola Indians], the priests dug up corpsesand ate them, several being thus poisoned(S&K 1238).The Nodites encouraged cremation as ameans of combating cannibalismsince it was once a common practice todig up buried bodies and eat them.Human sacrifice sounded the death knellof cannibalism.If then, human flesh is tabooed infavor of superiors, it is in the naturalorder that it shall come to be set apart forthe daimons.Human flesh having become the food ofsuperior men, the chiefs, it was eventuallyreserved for the still more superior spirits;32