Kore names at once the disembodied spirit of a dead person and the primeval forest into which that spirit passes. It is the wild, the domain outside the gardens and settlements, where the dead live on transformed into the birds and marsupials of the high forest. Kore stands as the structuring opposite of the cultivated, domestic world of the living, and Gimi mortuary practice, including the former eating of the dead by women, was understood as a means of returning the kore to its proper place in the wild rather than letting it rot in the ground.