The Lobi Country

Death cults have always fascinated me because they're one of the points of contrast and more intense relativism that go against our way of looking at life (and death). For us, death is a source of respect, but it's also taboo and not many people want to die. In other cultures death is part of everyday life. In Lobi, they have animistic beliefs that the dead "live" among the living. They are buried outside the house, a few meters away from the front door, so that no one will pass unnoticed. Clay statues are erected to mark their presence. They are rough, like a lot of sand in the square with some human form, but endowed with expression with stones or shells where they make eyes, nose, a mouth, etc.