Xiaohong Lv

“Shelter My Soul with Your Body” – A Burial Custom Influenced by Shamanism: A Case of Covering a Dead Face with the Right Ribs of a Local Sheep in Inner Mongolia, China

Research Square August 3, 2022 Lin Ban, Xiaohong Lv, Dawei Cai et al. preprint

Abstract Death represents the termination of all biological functions that sustain an organism and is inevitable in the ordinary life of people. Throughout history, death has been a topic of discussion. The emotion of fear of death has existed since the birth of human beings and has become even more so after civilization. To alleviate the fear of death, the unknown thing, primitive people began...