tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post4444794341153363204..comments2024-03-27T22:28:06.861-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Musings On The Practice Of Having Companions For Dead LeadersAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-49563411375321939052016-01-19T22:12:18.967-07:002016-01-19T22:12:18.967-07:00Interesting analysis. It does make a certain amou...Interesting analysis. It does make a certain amount of sense.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-61571638698701959692016-01-19T11:20:49.401-07:002016-01-19T11:20:49.401-07:00When you have slaves and other types of servants, ...When you have slaves and other types of servants, you want to make sure that they are loyal. If they know they will die when you do, they will want to keep you alive. <br /><br />It's possible that one particular slave may be so outraged that he/she chooses to die killing. Romans had a dissuasive method against that: all the slaves in the household were killed if the master was murdered by a slave. Collective punishment may therefore help preventing class war from coalescing. <br /><br />My hypothesis therefore is that the human sacrifices were usually slaves or servants of the aristocrat being buried. That way, regardless of the ideological narrative surrounding the macabre event, they were reasonably expected to protect the life of their master faithfully. Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com