Neoandertals - Defleshing The Cadaver Before Burial Lyrics
Two mysteries of creation -- life and deathTheir dead were buried, fearing their resurrectionThe placement of heavy stone slabs upon their graves seen as impeding their dead from returningNeanderthal corpses, tightly flexed, tied with thongsInterring their dead, performing burial ritualsThe defleshing of the body -- a symbolic act -- preventing it's spirit from haunting themRemoving flesh to silence the destructive will of natureRemoving flesh to see death making it's way into the carcassRemoving flesh... Flesh, doomful like a rapid ghastly riverCheek muscles from children were filleted out, Tendons were sliced and skulls were cracked to remove brainsFlaying will silence the vile enemy in the form of the Neanderthal ghostAllaying the dead spirits, who possess destructive powers to the continent(For thousands of years or more, the shell will see it's ghostly owner nevermore)(Series of rituals, praising the individual)Buried together, entire kin groups remained united after deathBelieved in an afterlife, a vision beyond death in their pre-abstract mindsArtifacts and faunaGuaranteed health in the spirit world... Defleshing The Cadaver Before Burial, to protect the living from the undeadDeath itself, regarded as a kind of sleepCorpses arranged in sleeplike positionsDeath had become something more than a mere brutish fact of natureLeave the rotten meat witnessing the rebirth of an epoch
