آكلو لحوم البشر .. كتاب في سبيل موسوعة علمية .. الدكتور أحمد ذكي

Cannibals

We hear a lot about human beings eating human meat. Is this a reality or is it some nonsense or exaggeration, because it is unreasonable for a dog not to eat a dog, a tiger not to eat a tiger, and a human to eat a human?
If this is true, is human flesh useful as food for humans?

We begin by answering the last paragraph of the question.

Those who ask about human meat: Is it suitable food for humans? We say, of course, that from a theoretical point of view, it is not a better food than it. When a person eats the flesh of animals, he only dissolves it and forms from it meat, tissues, vessels, and organs, which are human organs, not animal organs.
We say from a theoretical point of view, and it is also from a logical point of view. In the past, I read a scientist criticizing the human race from an economic standpoint, in that it does not benefit from the bodies of people who die. He leaves them to worms in the graves, or to fire and fire among those who burn the dead. His statement would have been true if he was talking about something other than humans. We do not bury cows or burn them, and we even eat their meat from horses, especially while the war is going on. But humans have human values ​​that outweigh all economic arguments. One ton of these values ​​outweighs a thousand tons of all the weights of logic.

As for the custom of cannibalism, many exaggerations have been made about it, but these exaggerations did not obscure the true fact, which is that cannibalism was at least what was practiced by human tribes. A small portion of them may still practice it today.

We mention one of the places on earth where these tribes still exist: New Guinea, in its centre. We mention a few remnants from West and Central Africa... and remnants in Malaysia, especially in Algeria, Fiji, and Australia. Among the Ma'awaris in New Zealand, the Batak tribe in Sumatra, and the remnants of tribes in North and South America.

The purpose of cannibalism varies from tribe to tribe and from one situation to another

Cannibals in Malaysia equate human flesh with animal flesh in terms of consumption, as they follow primitive logic without values.

The Ma'urists in New Zealand dismember the bodies of the dead after battles and make them the first color in the feasts they hold after a victory.

The Batak tribe in Sumatra used to sell human meat in the markets, as well as sheep and cow meat, and here it was a past tense verb.

The Fijians, whose leaders were proud of the number of human bodies they consumed, were keen to count and record them.

Some tribes eat human bodies, not as revenge against their masters, nor out of disdain for them, but out of respect and glory. And from
This is what was told in the past by the famous Greek historian Herodotus. He said: A king brought a group of Greeks and offered them a lot of money if they would eat the bodies of their fathers when they died. This group was greatly terrified. (It is the Greek custom to burn their dead.)
Of course they refused. So the king offered such a lot of money to a group of other people, if they agreed to bury or burn the bodies of their fathers when they died. They were terrified as well. They said that they eat their fathers' bodies out of respect and preservation.

Among the tribes are those who believe that the strength of a hero is concentrated in his heart and the strength of a sage is concentrated in his head. They did not eat the entire body, but rather chose from its organs and parts whatever would bring about the goodness hidden in these parts for them.

They made drinking bowls, cups, and cups out of the skulls.

It is a terrible thing for children to build their bodies from the bodies of their parents, as they take their flesh as food.

However, if the thought delved into knowledge a little, it would be found that this is the established and permanent law of creation, even if it occurs in a hidden way. Thousands and thousands of people are leaving, who were there in the past centuries, and then turned to what they became. It included them, then the graves were empty. Or with them when the pyres breathed. And they transformed, whether you breathed them in this way or that way, into substances in the soil or air, from which the plant builds its stem, its leaves, and its fruit, and from the plant the animal builds its body, and from the plant and animal the human being makes his body, and he only makes it from atoms that were once part of the bodies of his fathers and grandfathers.

Bodies, in reality, are nothing but garments of borrowed flesh, which death dissolves and dismantles, so that they may re-weave life from the mixture into which they have been dissolved, new garments, for new generations that time will bring. and so on .