Culture I spent a month with ‘cannibal cult’ who live in cemeteries and feast on human flesh…but what I saw was beautiful - They also drink from human skulls and chew the heads off of live animals

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A FEMALE photographer has spent a month with a chilling "cannibal cult" but found beauty in them despite the grisliness of it all.
During her time in northern India, Tamara Merino documented the life of the Aghori, who live in cemeteries, use dead bodies as alters and feast on human flesh
Intrigued by their infamous title of "most feared cannibal in all of India and Nepal", she sought them out while travelling through India in 2016.
Turns out she found them nice and "beautiful", despite the grisliness of it all.
"After some time, I got the chance to meet Aghori guru Baba Ram Mahesh and it was through him that I gained my chance to document the intimate daily life of the cult," she told Refinery29.
"I made relationships with other Aghori and they allowed me to make my work securely and spend a few weeks with them in Varanasi."

Tamara's photos, some of which depict open-air cremation and human remains, can be seen on Refinery29.
"It was an intense but beautiful experience," the photographer said.
"The Aghori live and perform their rituals during the night, so in order to document the cult I regularly had to stay awake all night in the cremation grounds with them."
One of the most feared and revered cults in India, the Aghori members are infamous for their dark and deadly quest for spiritual enlightenment.
This is why they immerse themselves in environments where death surrounds them as a part of their daily routine," Tamara explained.

"They eat human flesh for specific rituals and use human skulls and bones for ceremonies and jewellery.
"An Aghori is also a master of many spiritual powers, able to cure and save people’s lives from mental and physical illnesses."
Polish photographer Jan Skwara, 38, also decided to document the unsettling lives of the Aghori.
One terrifying image captured the moment a man tipped his head back and raised his hands before drinking from the mouth of a real human skull.

In another picture, a man is seen sitting down with a red human skull perched on top of his own whilst his face is covered in an eerie white dust.
While they worship the Hindu deity, Shiva, Aghori practices are seen as being contradictory to orthodox Hinduism.
The Aghori believe in asceticism, a lifestyle in which one denies themselves of sensual pleasures choosing instead to pursue spiritual goals.



White women. They will cannibals beautiful because they aren’t white.

 

[Daily Affirmation]

That pretentious fuck Reza Aslan struggled to keep his lunch down in their presence.

I remember that. Reza Aslan ate a dude's brain. You don't get more cvlt than that.

 

[God of Nothing]

This is why I keep saying that not every culture should be respected and colonialism isn't bad because shit like this gets treated as the savagery it is.

Colonialism was the best thing that ever happened to the African continent and Indian sub-continent. Nothing can convince me otherwise. These people would legitimately still be living in huts if it weren't for the Europeans.

 

[BMO_]

I spent a month with ‘cannibal cult’ who live in cemeteries and feast on human flesh…but what I saw was beautiful

Islamic Content: 101

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

This is why I keep saying that not every culture should be respected and colonialism isn't bad because shit like this gets treated as the savagery it is.

I know the Aztecs were fucking asking for it and native Hawaiian culture and religion also was fucked. I was always curious why so many Hawaiians were Christians. Then I went to Hawai'i a couple of times and learned about what the natives actually believed. No wonder they ran to Christianity.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

“Prion diseases and retards are beautiful.” - a fat retard woman.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Those kind of women are then surprised when they are raped. Anyways, some cultures deserve to go extinct.

 

[Unsane]

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I didn't realise what Rishi Sunak got up to at the weekend.

 

[Biggie Smalls' Taint]

I'm going to paint myself brown and do some heinous shit so a white woman will finally compliment me.

 

[Niggs Monaghan]

They sound metal as fuck and it's too bad they didn't sacrifice and eat the journie libtard tbh

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

I know the Aztecs were fucking asking for it and native Hawaiian culture and religion also was fucked. I was always curious why so many Hawaiians were Christians. Then I went to Hawai'i a couple of times and learned about what the natives actually believed. No wonder they ran to Christianity.

Meh, their religions had their good sides. There's lots of shittiness in Christian history and religion and wholesomeness in Pagan ones. Who were the first people to ban human sacrifice? Pagan Greeks, not Christians. They would have naturally moved away from the more brutal practices like human sacrifices with time, even without conversion.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Meh, their religions had their good sides. There's lots of shittiness in Christian history and religion and wholesomeness in Pagan ones. Who were the first people to ban human sacrifice? Pagan Greeks, not Christians. They would have naturally moved away from the more brutal practices like human sacrifices with time, even without conversion.

Christianity didn't ban human sacrifice, Judaism did long before Jesus came on the scene. Jesus was wholly man and wholly God so he wasn't a human sacrifice.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Elements of the article are accurate. The ivory trade alone proves that you can do some fairly aesthetic stuff with body parts. Voodoo similarly has a record of fairly awesome bone-themed aesthetics though obviously not actual bone (usually).

However ultimately thsre are crazy people who eat people, made most clear by the fact that this is not just a Sun article but the Irish Sun. I give them 5 years before "white women fuck dogs" is being justified in an opinion column.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I hope this bitch's brain gets turned into fucking sponge cake by the prions.

 

[Android raptor]

They sound pretty metal ngl

 

[CowPox]

If they just let you dig up graves i'd take a pajeet skull, i'd take as many as they would give me etc.

 

[ffo kcuF]

This is significantly less disgusting than Indian street food.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

But when I do it, they say I'm high on bath salts and they put me in five-point restraints for 72 hours.

 

[Bonesjones]

Christianity didn't ban human sacrifice, Judaism did long before Jesus came on the scene. Jesus was wholly man and wholly God so he wasn't a human sacrifice.

Tell that to Simon of Trent and the other kids sacrificed up to and past the middle ages.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

Christianity didn't ban human sacrifice

I know, but that's what Christians often claim as one of the reasons their religion is better. They think they converted all the savage Pagans from their sacrificing ways, when really, the Romans and Greeks who first converted didn't even do that anyways.

Judaism did long before Jesus came on the scene

I'm sure Ancient Jews practiced human sacrifice like most cultures did, even the word "moloch" was actually describing a practice of child sacrifice to Yahweh and not the name of a god, like was later misinterpreted.

 

[X Prime]

Meh, their religions had their good sides. There's lots of shittiness in Christian history and religion and wholesomeness in Pagan ones. Who were the first people to ban human sacrifice? Pagan Greeks, not Christians. They would have naturally moved away from the more brutal practices like human sacrifices with time, even without conversion.

It is true there is a lot of shittiness in Christian history.

For one thing, they did not wipe out every single trace of paganism from this planet.