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Europeans used to consume Egyptian mummies as medicine. During the same period they were actively doing this, they would frequently accuse indigenous peoples of cannibalism.
Why did they not consider mummy consumption cannibalism? Was it only cannibalism if the person being eaten had been alive recently? Was it about race? How does that relate to Europeans pretending that ancient Egyptians, who they were eating, were white? Or was it because mummies were preserved and not fresh?
cannibalism
@avi good questions 🤔
cannibalism
Although preservation is a necessary condition of eating someone who died centuries ago, could a European of this time period eat human jerky made from a recently hanged person and not feel any guilt?
Hm...was the cannibalism/not cannibalism distinction religious? Could a Christian eat a non-Christian? Something something eucharist