A funerary Mimbres black-on-white ceramic bowl (1000–1130 CE) with a kill hole at its base. The Mimbres of the American Southwest placed such bowls over the heads of the deceased, believing the spirit must exit the body and return to the underworld through the hole [2560×4808]
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“We must put a hole in the bowl”
“Why?”
“So their soul can get out”
“It can’t go through the bowl but can go through the ground, made of what we made the bowl of, to the underworld?”
“Correct”
“Can we just leave the bowl off?”
“What, are you crazy??”