Fact 30

By custom, objects a person touches before death are deemed impure and must be buried with them. Likewise, items used by a woman post-childbirth are destroyed, believed to bear spiritual stain. These rites express profound ideas about purity, life, and passage between worlds.
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Avoids accidental centralization.