Funeral Season

It’s not as bad as it sounds. Funerals here are a celebration of someone’s life and they occur at least 5 years after someone dies, but it’s usually more like 20 years. This is because traditionally, they would dig up the body once it had decomposed and take the skull to put with all of the ancestors’ skulls in a little house built close to the main house. Only about 1/3 of the village still practices this tradition, but the rest of the funeral traditions remain the same. This includes an abundant amount of food and drinks and dances where you throw salt all around (no one could tell me why they do this). Funeral season coincides with dry season and there are about 3 every weekend in the village.