In a world un-hazed by light pollution, the night sky arcing above their heads and the regularly shifting moon may have become part of murmured songs around a fire. Certainly, place itself and how it’s bound up with experiences and memories of relations with things, animals and others would be central to how they understood the world. When histories and lineages merge with land, what happens to the bodies of the dead becomes one of the most powerful ways to invest a place with social potency.
