KNOT MAKES NOTHING.
- +.. hypnagogic hauntology
- +..Dark 8-Bit
- +.. Anomalous Audio psytrance
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It seems that if the inside of the pyramid was warmed up previously by a turf fire for a day or so, the heat and smoke-smell greatly encouraged the wise woman or shamaness to “go off” into volubility for quite a while before she passed out into unconsciousness or even death. Not that her death was an actual objective as in the case of the King, but an incidental to be expected if the God so intended. When such a demise occurred, which was not a terribly rare event, the body was given honourable burial, and later the bones were lifted, cleaned, and put with others of the same class usually in a skin bag kept in a side-cyst of the main pyramid. In that way, the spirits of the ancestors were supposed to keep in touch with their living descendants. It was probably a commencement of the custom of storing saintly bones in sacred shrines.
Gray, William G.
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