THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901
MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine) ΚΑΤΩ Η ΣΥΓΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΔΟΤΩΝ!!! Strabo – “Geography” “There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the parts of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the places geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace which borders on it and extends as far as the mouth of the Euxine and the Propontis. Then, a little further on, Strabo mentions Cypsela and the Hebrus River, and also describes a sort of parallelogram in which the whole of Macedonia lies.” (Strab. 7.fragments.9) ΚΚΕ, ΚΝΕ, ΟΝΝΕΔ, ΑΓΟΡΑ,ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ,ΝΕΑ,ΦΩΝΗ,ΦΕΚ,ΝΟΜΟΣ,LIFO,MACEDONIA, ALEXANDER, GREECE,IKEA
MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine)
ΚΑΤΩ Η ΣΥΓΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΔΟΤΩΝ!!!
Strabo – “Geography”
“There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the parts of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the places geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace which borders on it and extends as far as the mouth of the Euxine and the Propontis. Then, a little further on, Strabo mentions Cypsela and the Hebrus River, and also describes a sort of parallelogram in which the whole of Macedonia lies.”
(Strab. 7.fragments.9)
ΚΚΕ, ΚΝΕ, ΟΝΝΕΔ, ΑΓΟΡΑ,ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ,ΝΕΑ,ΦΩΝΗ,ΦΕΚ,ΝΟΜΟΣ,LIFO,MACEDONIA, ALEXANDER, GREECE,IKEA
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INHUMATION, CREMATION, AND <strong>THE</strong> SOUL. 531<br />
The Siamese, who are<br />
Buddhists, burn their dead, but this<br />
is derived through Buddhism from Hinduism. In Laos and<br />
Cambodia cremation is practised as in Siam and from the same<br />
caused<br />
The natives of the Malay peninsula seem never to have<br />
burned the dead. The little aboriginal Sakeis bury the body".<br />
The Malays being Mahommedans of course do the same, but<br />
it is probable that at no time did any of the Malays, either on<br />
the mainland or in the great islands, practise cremation.<br />
In Borneo^ likewise the practice seems unknown (except<br />
amongst Hindu settlt-rs), as it is also in iS'ew Guinea and<br />
Australia.<br />
The Burmese pra(;tise iidiumationr even the Buddhists<br />
burying theii' dead, V)ut great priests are burned. Royal<br />
personages were buried, but were supposed to be burned, as<br />
all the motions and actions of cremation were gone through at<br />
their bui'ial ceremonies-'.<br />
The Shan tiibes also inter their dead.<br />
The natives /./;/'/. r.-.<br />
|-',lli~, I'iihllii'^iillK. I. li'.IS, etc.; Co.h iu^'toll, Mrliiiit':..m. -times Imt laivly a c.upse is luinie.i al tlie wish of tlie deeeased, when<br />
th.- hi a.i IS pi-otect.-.l flotn tile tile, and ke|it as a uiniinitr.<br />
sqij.<br />
532 INHUMATION, CREMATION, AND <strong>THE</strong> SOUL.<br />
universally to have practised inhumation', yet there are some<br />
notable exceptions. Thus in Georgia" tumuli in close proximity<br />
have contained in some cases burnt, in others unburnt bones.<br />
The natives at Port des Franqais on the north-west burnt all of<br />
the body except the head. The head and burnt remains were<br />
then put in a coffin and set in a moixii.<br />
The Indians of Florida buried their dead in the ground, the<br />
hut and all that had belonged to them being burned.<br />
Let us now retui'n to Hindustan, which has<br />
kept till last.<br />
been purposely<br />
The Hindus on their coming found it peopled <strong>by</strong> Dravidians,<br />
who still form the chief element in the population, and whose<br />
speech still dominates all its southern regions. The vast<br />
majority of the people of India get rid of their dead <strong>by</strong><br />
throwing them into the nearest stream in the pious hope that<br />
ultimately they may find their way to the Ganges.<br />
On the other hand the Hindus proper burn their dead<br />
and women who have<br />
except children under two years of age,<br />
died in childbirth or menstruation. To burn such would be<br />
dangerous, for their spirits become bhuts, or malevolent demons,<br />
who have to be propitiated <strong>by</strong> offerings.<br />
As such souls stay<br />
near their unburnt bodies, they can be thus localized, and<br />
fitting offeiings can be made. On the (^ther hand, if the body<br />
were burnt, the sj)irit<br />
would have no longer a local habitation<br />
and would hv more difficult to deal with. Having (le])arted<br />
in a state of impurity, even though burnt it cannot pass to<br />
the final abode of the dead. The spirits of those who have died<br />
violent deaths, either <strong>by</strong> accident, suicide, oi' caj)ital punishment,<br />
also become blints. Such a soul reaches an additional<br />
grade of maliijnity, if it has been denied ]roper funei-al ceremonies<br />
after death. If a woman mari'ies a second time, she is<br />
especially<br />
liable to the attacks of her fii'st htisband, and so too<br />
is hei- second consort.<br />
A lani])<br />
made of flour is |)lac(,'(l<br />
in the hands of the dead<br />
Hindu to light his ghost to the I'ealni of Varna, which lies still<br />
in the south as it did in Vedic times. "The relations howl like<br />
ii'ish keeners to scai'e e\il s])irits,<br />
who would obstruct the de-<br />
Scliiiolciaft, Iiididu Trilii's, ji.<br />
10.").<br />
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Greeinvcll, oji. fit., p. \',)ii.
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