Thanks for the mention, Tommy! I'm happy you're taking a shot at the outside challenge too. I just came in from a quick 30 minutes out to the main road and back; it's still hovering around freezing here and the weather has been awful. But we do what we must!
As for the interment of the dead, here's a story from my part of the world: one of the many big conflicts the Blackfeet had with white people coming up the Missouri river in steamboats was all the cottonwood trees that were cut to fuel their progress upriver (my great great grandfather Mose La Tray was a woodhawk involved in that labor). The Blackfeet interred their dead in the cottonwoods and the bodies would decompose and fall down into the soil, so the trees were quite literally seen as their ancestors. They didn't like their ancestors being chopped up and burned just so more white people could have an easier trip into the interior to steal everything. Justifiable mayhem ensued.
Did you make it Pere LaChaise in Paris?
No, I spent a short time in Paris and chose the Catacombs over many things!
Very good
Thanks for the mention, Tommy! I'm happy you're taking a shot at the outside challenge too. I just came in from a quick 30 minutes out to the main road and back; it's still hovering around freezing here and the weather has been awful. But we do what we must!
As for the interment of the dead, here's a story from my part of the world: one of the many big conflicts the Blackfeet had with white people coming up the Missouri river in steamboats was all the cottonwood trees that were cut to fuel their progress upriver (my great great grandfather Mose La Tray was a woodhawk involved in that labor). The Blackfeet interred their dead in the cottonwoods and the bodies would decompose and fall down into the soil, so the trees were quite literally seen as their ancestors. They didn't like their ancestors being chopped up and burned just so more white people could have an easier trip into the interior to steal everything. Justifiable mayhem ensued.
I didn't know that. Not all monuments are dead stone... some are living wood.
Fascinating! That must have been something to experience.