dead in baobab - Senegal
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Ariberna
N 14° 34.380 W 016° 59.189
28P E 285982 N 1612032
Did you know that the Griot ethnic group used to bury their dead in the baobab trees?
Waymark Code: WM18KTM
Location: Senegal
Date Posted: 08/19/2023
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Each dead person went to a baobab tree, which was opened and the person was introduced, and then the tree was in charge of closing and "swallowing" him/her.
President Leopold Senghor banned such burials and that year there was a great drought for which the griots blamed him.
Here there is a marked tomb in which two skulls were found and studied by an anthropologist.
Today there are still bones.
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