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Anthropology

rampartd

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3. sacrificial caste?????

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #1)

Tue May 26, 2026, 04:41 AM

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they were the cooks, scribes, and concubines who accompanied their monarch into the afterlife.

i don't get that they were bred for the single moment of death like thanksgiving turkeys, but that civil service retirement in the silla kingdom may have been colder and darker than we americans might appreciate.

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