In the words of Arhuaco elder Jaison Pérez Villafaña, “My spirit travels, but it also has a home; my body.” 
  
Seeds, like human bodies, house a spirit as well as contain the potential for life and growth. Burying an urn is therefore akin to planting a seed. For the Arhuaco of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, when a human life ends, it is completed by a nourishment of seeds.[SC3]  The body of a person from the lowlands will be nourished with seeds from the highlands, and vice versa, so that the totality of the human-seed inside the urn is made complete, thereby encapsulating and maintaining the integrity of their home territory.