The speaker says the warrior who captured a prisoner took the victim’s flesh home to eat as a culmination of victory and a literal internalization of the defeated enemy.

“right and the steps were so steep to allow it to tumble all the way to the bottom and then the warrior who'd taken that prisoner would then take the flesh home to be consumed it was the consummation of his victory as a warrior to take on literally internalize the defeated enemy so this was as you say it's a cycle that the world is better off without i'm not going to make any excuses for it but the motivations of those who did that that was not”