Members of the Hanunuo Mangyan tribe in the Philippines do not leave their dead in the grave for long, digging up the remains of loved ones in an unusual revival ritual that itself is slowly dying out.
The "kutkot" ritual is a tradition of bringing the dead back to life.
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Sometimes I love to read the independent because the reporters always present good quality articles. Mary Dejevsky approach to the Iraq inquiry gives such depth on the actual equiry its self it reads like a...
This is an interesting find.It gives some insight into how people lived and died in England one thousand years ago. There was then almost constant warfare in in England between Saxons and Vikings "...
"The document blames the accuracy of the strikes on "spies … (who) have spread throughout the land like locusts … So many brave commanders have been snatched away … so many hidden homes have been leveled." ...
The body of triple murder suspect, University of Georgia Professor George Zinkhan, was found nearly 1 mile from when his car was found last week. It appears he dug his own grave, partially burying...
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Civilians in Sri Lanka's no-fire zone are in grave danger. One witness describes an attack thatkilled 13 people who were waiting on line at a food distribution center earlier this week. Eye witness of a shelling at a food distribution center....
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Cemmani Mass Grave in Jaffna 1996 under Sri Lankan army control!Sri Lankan Army Lance Corporal Somaratne Rajapakse, facing a death sentence for the rape and murder of student Krishanti Kumaraswamy and her family,...
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The remains have many characteristics that lead to think they are warriors, tall young men with bones that had been broken and healed. What makes this burial unusual is the mixture of two cultures. Aztec and...
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Taleban militias are fighting against NATO and USA forces in Afghnistan and they are troubling even when they are dead. BBC is reporting that the Afghan government has sought help from NATO forces to guard mass...
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JERUSALEM: Archaelogist believed a 12,000 year-old skeleton found in a grave containing 50 tortoise shells, a leopard pelvis, a cow tail and part of an eagle wing is the remains of a witch doctor.The skeleton,...
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Evidence that families lived together as a unit about 4,600 years ago has been unearthed in Germany, at a stone-age burial site. The grave contained the remains of a man, woman and two young people, and using DNA,...
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As we hear that unemployment in the UK is to hit 2 million we have a story that confirms much of the UK farming industry is kept going by the exploitation of foreign workers. As the euro strengthens against the...
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German authorities have dug up a grave in Southern Germany because they heard the man was buried with a Nazi flag. Displaying swastikas is a crime in Germany punishible by up to three years in jail. "German authorities in the southern town of Passau have dug up a neo-Nazi's...
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There will be no more privacy then... " Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a ‘step too far for the British way of life’. In an Orwellian move, the Home Office is proposing to detail every phone call, e-mail,...
Money talks, it's all about the money...."In what was called a "grave for press freedom" in Indonesia, a court here ruled Thursday in favor of a pulp and paper firm in a long-standing dispute with Koran Tempo...
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