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Near the village of Petrikov in the southern suburbs of Ternopil, Ukraine, archaeologists discovered 183 3 thousand year old burials, six of which are twinned, in which two people were buried simultaneously, most often a man and a woman , writes gazeta.ua in reference to the archaeologist Nikolai Bandryvsky.
"Among these twin burials in Petrikov, one is unique: in the tomb, a man and a woman were lying close together, the two facing each other, touching each other's forehead. the flank, gently squeezed her right hand, putting her wrist on the right shoulder.The woman's legs at the same time – tight and bent at the knees, stretch on the outstretched legs of the # On the two there were bronze ornaments, and in the heads there was a pottery, arranged in a semicircle: a bowl, a pot and three scoops. "And, interestingly enough: while in Other regions of Europe the dead men In the pagan burials of the Vysotsky culture, the dead in the "twin tombs" always received elements of intimacy, tenderness and undisguised sympathy towards each other. the others: then women's hands were put in the hands of the Male, most recently Bandrywski
Pathologists have determined that it is impossible to place already lifeless bodies in such embraces. Experts believe that at least one of them gave this particular pose to his body himself just before his death. It is believed that, according to the rituals and customs of the time, a woman could leave after her deceased husband. To do this, it was enough to drink poison.
"In our opinion, it was a voluntary decision of a woman. Perhaps, she did not feel it necessary after the death of her husband to live with another, to get used to another way of life. And she preferred to go after her husband. This was by no means an act of suicide. And did not mean to escape difficulties or realities of that time. Such an act on the part of the woman was conditioned, as we suppose, by an inner spiritual impulse, by an attempt to continue to be next to her husband, "says the scientist
her husband. the late Bronze Age believed in the immortality of the human soul and its eternal existence
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