New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-27

cloth and rearranged roughly to represent a
body
In another a child was buried with an
adult. The child was apparently quite perfect
when buried. but the adult was well cut up. The
hands and feet were all cut off and picked to
pieces. the skull turned over. the arms picked TO
pieces so thoroughly that the separate bones
the ribs were all loose and very few vertcbrae
were left Joined together: the hips were cut
apart and the thighs and shns disjointcd. even
me Sha!l spllnt bones being cut loose from the
shins. Lastly. the whole recomposed body was
iully and completely wrapped in close Swathng
linen. and lay quite undisturbcd.
Ana We may yet note another example. even
more eiaborat"ly treated. The whole body had
h'tn FUZZY cut To pieces no two vertebrate even
were o"njoined the hips were separated and
the arm bones entirely pulled apart. But the
rms W'r" neatly arranged in the body region.
ana the Shins the ankles and the feet had been
entirely picked To pieces and every separate
small bone wrapped i'm cloth and then roughly
r"r"mpos'd. The labor of this entire picking
apart ana cleaning the flesh from the bones
before wrapping them up cach. separately and
arranging them into the semblancc Of the body
shows am extreme care. which must prevent our
hon"ied burial
THE LIHYAN INVADERS' CUSTOM
When We turn to other cases found ia F;;vpt
those OF the LibYan invaders. we may get a
rI"W I" the source of this custom. These Lib
vans who occupied Upper Egypt about $3.50
,''""' Is G., hah;tually cut the head frorN the
body. and frequently cut up the bod. sor;e-
times only removing the hands tas ab..t}. q. l..v-
W ",Tih' i''n'rnE IL fU'th'': unt' !" le
cases tho htN"S are classified 10y H"u,tjI'y in
the grave. And in one great burial Nv, hc;;ias
n'd h'en an picked To pieces. and tho marrow
hones broken at the ends and scoopcd out. mis-
last fac which is unquostioaahIc- shows that
me 'AtInE Of IN" body was Y".t OF t'le cus' ms
% the burial l.tcp as late a.. &C Eot,"0 ,:-ues
" Tradition remained that osiris tau.,t, The
l-NptiarS agriculture and abolished c&nuinaI-
What. then. may We conclude from the
Strange m'Niur" of burial oust.i.l. WIZ il We
have lust noticed as prcvaiiir,: in a.. - of
IT,. Pyramid builders in ! v,,t2 X, iind me
t~i"mN almost equally diN.'trd between perfect
in
"','I ~ "'' cases the Same elaborate" and CsSuy
H.'uIlut" was provided. just a much for one
,.'''mcnt OF the body as for thu other. This
SHOWS iuNl'n or two entirely different hclicfs
3"u 'US' ms IN "NttrualS they had become uni
~ a. probably from long pressure of respect
a"llitN aud a Ctsirv to do what was right and
proper i'm general estimation. but the moro Jer-
Soual AMI religious difference of the treatment
oi tho body coutiuUrd to mart, ONT IN. differ
'ncr "i thr original customs ana beliefs
IN" source of tn" people who cut up the body
Is hi'hahN l-lhNan. as We find the bodies OF
ether Lihyan tribes. just after this to bc habit
uallN cut un and sometimes eaton. Whether
ihe Es\ ptians actually at" IN" bodies in the
Arainid period We cannot Yet Determines they
may have been in the transition state OF those
Australians who cut off the n,sh carefully and
-. sea IT. nut put II I'm holes in tn" ground.
In1' IN" !. lies NcI" boiled is most prublhc. a.
H' other quick and ready way If picl-ive to
pieces all the Vcrichra". rryis. etc., Is co likely.
i-'th"r nrniont"d decay or some form Of cook
ing would Ice ncoifuI $50 To- prepare III, bones
The rr"sumrti"n. then. is th"t j. they ala not
actually eat the flesh NJ that tim. thy at least
Kept up the cooking OF il and IN, cleaning of
TIA" bones for burial.
iut this Lihyau cauuihalisll had been LARGELY
modified. and changed altogether in external
usagcS. by an entirely different custom of some
ether race. VINO buried tn body a. fun lcu.th
which developed later into all tho complex
naturalization which We associate essentially
with our notions "f EENut. Whence this other
rae came Sc cannot Yet hr e. rtain. hUt various
ndcatonS are in favor of their having entered
hS\pl from tn" Rod S,a and having founded the
dyn'S'i' rul" of the EglPtan Kingdom.