Is eating other human beings a religion for the cannibals who do eat people?What body parts do they eat?Why?

Answer 1

eeeewwwwww...................................yuk.

Answer 2

It is part of their world view and for some, comes from religion. Most often, eating another human being is intended to bring their spirit and power into the eater. Absorbing the victim's personal power is much preferred to letting it rot or evaporate. Different cultures eat different parts, some eat just the heart or liver, some eat the flesh (muscle tissue) some eat all of the person, it depends. Cannibalism is a taboo for us but when we look at the meaning of the actions, it becomes less creepy and if we can step back, we can see the beauty behind the intent.

Answer 3

For some, yes. It would depend on the cannibals.

Ritual cannibalism usually stems from either religion or warfare. The body parts involved are those that the society considers important. The most popular would probably be the heart, the brain, and the liver (the later probably because it is the largest edible organ). Drinking blood would also play a part in some rituals.

Answer 4

I don't believe there are any cannibal societies in existence any more, just cannibalistic individuals, like Jeffrey Dahmer.

There were some pre-columbian cultures where a warrior would eat the heart of their fallen enemy inorder to gain their strength.

In one of Anne Rice's books there was a fictional village, where when someone died, the body was cooked and all the member's of that person's family would eat it.

It was done to keep the spirit of the dead loved one within the family.

In Catholicism, there is the belief in Transubstantiation. That means that during the Eucharist a wafer becomes Christ's flesh, and wine becomes Christ's blood, and those are eaten by the faithful.

Answer 5

A missionary to New Guinea was once served human flesh at a banquet in his honor. Years later he was the meal at a banquet he was invited to.

They just want power over the dead. What better way to express domination than to eat your enemy.

In some tribes part of the mourning for the dead loved ones included eating ears and fingers.

Did you know that the Caddo Indians of South East Texas were Cannibals?

Answer 6

Care should be taken to distinguish among ritual cannibalism sanctioned by a cultural code, cannibalism by necessity occurring in extreme situations of famine, and cannibalism by mentally disturbed people.

Answer 7

One problem with eating humans - especially uncooked, and especially their brains - is that even very fragile or subtle pathogens can be passed over.

ISTR that Kuru was the first discovery of human spongiform encephalopathy, contracted by those who ate portions of their ancestors' brains at their funerals as a mark of respect. Result - transfer of mutant prions and a slow-motion destruction of the entire nervous system over years.

Feeding sheep brains to cattle - essentially the same thing - led to Mad Cow disease.

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Answer 8

anything that eats its on kind is not good. when something eats its own kind it becomes a demon or monster whatever you want to call it. theres a sort of demonic transformation that humans especially make when they eat other humans, their brains chemistry change and they lose humanity . same thing goes for people who crave human blood.

Answer 9

christians eat the body of jesus and drink his blood.

Answer 10

Their brains, their sweet delicious brains. I hear they put ketchup on it too.

Answer 11

no DBD