Collision on The Big Road Chapter 61

There are numerous customs for burying bodies after death. Burial is the most common and not surprising. However, in a few areas, many strange and bizarre burial methods have appeared, such as sky burial and hanging coffin burial, which later became well-known. Water burial is less well-known and appears bloody and violent due to the influence of primitive religion.

Water burial and sky burial have similar meanings. The latter is to feed eagles while the former is to feed fish. Eagles and fish are both incarnations of gods. In the area where water burial is practiced, people believe that throwing the body into the river and burying it in the belly of fish is the way to reincarnation and purification of the soul. This is a customary belief in some areas.

There are different ways of water burial in different regions. There are two most common ways. One is to throw the whole body into the river, the other is to throw the body into the river after cremation. Another is to cut the body in half with a knife and throw it into the river. The last one is more bloody, and it is necessary to use extremely sharp wooden knives or stone axes to cut the body into pieces one by one according to the joints and throw it into the river. This process is called dismemberment.

For water burial, you need to choose the time and water area. For example, the last method of dismemberment water burial needs to be done at night and the body parts must be thrown into waters with swirling sea shells.

Ethan Chen: "The waters of the sea spiral... We didn't look closely at the well in the ancestral hall. The well water may be connected to the river. We didn't see the river on the side we came in, so it should be on the other side of the uninhabited village. You mentioned water burials. This village used to do water burials. The fish in the river grew up eating corpses. Those fish swam into the water of the ancestral hall through the underground undercurrent and were fished out and eaten... I still don't understand why eating fish would produce sea spiral patterns."