Several cultures around the world burn our loved ones to ashes.

While there are occult reasons for such, from a historical perspective, one of them stand out: cultures that does this, leave little archeological record of the citizens actually living there.

Several lenses can be put on-board here:

• Historical

• Smithsonian...

• Tartary

and other "lost" civilizations.

On this aspect: several civilizations were never "lost" - rather morphed from one mode of living into another.

There are the occasional "tantrum from space" aspect, and other geological havocs that displace folks, as well as dogma coming in form of books and symbols determined to eradicate anyone who do not adhere to the same books and symbols.

We, as humans (Homo Sapiens) have been around for about half-a-million years.

-That's a very long time.

If we consider Atlantis as an entity "pre-flood", they too would have their ancestors, spanning 488,000 years (using this math for convenience).

We've heard of the controversy regarding Pyramids - which are quite numerous - an global in scope. (Most have probably realized Pyramids were anything but literal tombs by now. Also: Pyramids in China is quite something.)

Further focusing on Egypt: then there's the water-erosion on the Sphinx.

And the records of the Egyptian (KMT > Kemet) Priesthood, which is said to span somewhere between 36,000-54,000 years - hence noticing cycles of the Heavens spanning somewhere in the vicinity of ~13,000 x 2 = 25,960 years (The "wobble" > Repeat of patterns), hence Virgin to Leo hence Sphinx, which is so badly eroded by water it cannot account for being in a desert, only being "a few thousand years old".

Zoroastrians and surviving Indian traditions leave their dead in pits for birds and other prey, but burial actually goes back a very long time. Several 10s of thousands of years.

We have always had an intricate respect for our close ones, and grave-stones could through the ages be found in the middle of nowhere.

But due to "lack of evidence", new skeletons have been compiled these last few hundred years to account for our "missing links".

When we still actually burn them away.

Something tell me this is deliberate.

Not just "practical" (an urn takes little space) - but I can't help but see this tradition as a continuous eradication of our historical record.

What do you say?