# Sacrifice and god activity *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 Feb 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *23 Feb 1997, 06:14* > So alga appears to be correct-- a non-Quetzal agency did something that > stopped the gods from coming around. But Quetzal also seems to say that > human sacrifice is one of the factors that will awaken the sleeping gods, > or contribute to theophanies. It is definitely puzzling. If the Fliers, who are the Crew, did it, how come they are so obedient to the re-activated Tartaros? Who did the technical work for the Lemuroid bodies--it was one of them, wasn't it? Not Potto, maybe Loris. > Jerboa sacrificed a child? I'll have to look into that! He sacrificed a monkey that looked like a child, and it upset him very much. We should think about this sacrifice thing, the technical aspects of it. Trivigaunte performs no sacrifices--has no theophanies either. Viron sacrifices like crazy--has had no theophanies for 30 years, but that's because the god programs have been deactivated. When they are reactivated, Scylla speaks of a generous sacrifice as "getting her attention." There used to be human sacrifices up till Q's cognizance (33 years). One positive aspect of sacrifice is that, in a poor parish, it gets protein to the poor. The remains of the sacrifices feed the tunnel-dwellers and "gods" (bufes). Those are random thoughts; anyone want to put together a theory? BTW, what does "bufe" mean, in what language? And what would the study of chrasmology be? -alga- Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---