Neoandertals - Defleshing The Cadaver Before Burial lyrics

rate me

Two mysteries of creation -- life and death<br />

Their dead were buried, fearing their resurrection<br />

<br />

The placement of heavy stone slabs upon their graves seen as impeding their dead from returning<br />

Neanderthal corpses, tightly flexed, tied with thongs<br />

Interring their dead, performing burial rituals<br />

<br />

The defleshing of the body -- a symbolic act -- preventing it's spirit from haunting them<br />

Removing flesh to silence the destructive will of nature<br />

Removing flesh to see death making it's way into the carcass<br />

Removing flesh... <br />

Flesh, doomful like a rapid ghastly river<br />

Cheek muscles from children were filleted out, <br />

Tendons were sliced and skulls were cracked to remove brains<br />

Flaying will silence the vile enemy in the form of the Neanderthal ghost<br />

Allaying the dead spirits, who possess destructive powers to the continent<br />

<br />

(For thousands of years or more, the shell will see it's ghostly owner nevermore)<br />

<br />

(Series of rituals, praising the individual)<br />

<br />

Buried together, entire kin groups remained united after death<br />

Believed in an afterlife, a vision beyond death in their pre-abstract minds<br />

<br />

Artifacts and fauna<br />

Guaranteed health in the spirit world... <br />

<br />

Defleshing The Cadaver Before Burial, to protect the living from the undead<br />

<br />

Death itself, regarded as a kind of sleep<br />

Corpses arranged in sleeplike positions<br />

Death had become something more than a mere brutish fact of nature<br />

<br />

Leave the rotten meat witnessing the rebirth of an epoch