The Culture That Eats the Corpse of Their Dead Relatives

The tribe where it’s a taboo to go near a menstruating girl but it’s okay to eat dead bodies

Belinda Mallasasime
The Story in History
4 min readJun 28, 2022

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Some Yanomami women ( Photo source: Wikipedia)

The Yanomami whose population is estimated as 35,000 live in autonomous villages in the Amazon Rainforest on the border between southeastern Venezuela and northern Brazil. They don’t see themselves as a corporate…

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Belinda Mallasasime
The Story in History

Psychologist/ Top Writer, Lover of GOD and People. I write mostly on History, Travel, Leadership, and Culture. My religion is Love.