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  "thread": {
    "id": 117,
    "subject": "Sacrifice and god activity",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-02-23T06:14:13+00:00",
    "last": "1997-02-23T06:14:13+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0003-0168@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-02-23T06:14:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Sacrifice and god activity",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "So alga appears to be correct-- a non-Quetzal agency did something that\nstopped the gods from coming around.  But Quetzal also seems to say that\nhuman sacrifice is one of the factors that will awaken the sleeping gods,\nor contribute to theophanies."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "It is definitely puzzling. If the Fliers, who are the Crew, did it, how\ncome they are so obedient to the re-activated Tartaros? Who did the\ntechnical work for the Lemuroid bodies--it was one of them, wasn't it? Not\nPotto, maybe Loris."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Jerboa sacrificed a child?  I'll have to look into that!"
        },
        {
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          "text": "He sacrificed a monkey that looked like a child, and it upset him very\nmuch. \n\nWe should  think about this sacrifice thing, the technical aspects of it.\nTrivigaunte performs no sacrifices--has no theophanies either. Viron\nsacrifices like crazy--has had no theophanies for 30 years, but that's\nbecause the god programs have been deactivated. When they are reactivated,\nScylla speaks of a generous sacrifice as \"getting her attention.\" There\nused to be human sacrifices up till Q's cognizance (33 years). One positive\naspect of sacrifice is that, in a poor parish, it gets protein to the poor.\nThe remains of the sacrifices feed the tunnel-dwellers and \"gods\" (bufes).\n\nThose are random thoughts; anyone want to put together a theory?\n\nBTW, what does \"bufe\" mean, in what language? And what would the study of\nchrasmology  be?  \n\n-alga-\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
        }
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