Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

James Wynn · 17 Nov 2011, 17:14 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:14:37 -0600
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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>
>> It is inconceivable that Silk, who has
>> performed dozens if not hundreds of sacrifices by this time, would 
>> not know
>> the difference between a dead bird and a fainted one or a faking one. 
>> Oreb
>> was possessed (most likely) by Pas.
>
> Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> By dead Pas, who was where?, and what's possession got to do with 
> looking dead or resurrecting? 

Possessed creatures have capabilities beyond those possible for 
non-possessed creatures. When Chenille is possessed by Scylla she leaps 
out of the water like a dolphin. When she is possessed by Kyrpris, she 
throws a knife twice hitting precisely the same spot. Marble possessed 
by Echidna summons all the snakes from the neighborhood. Since I do not 
believe that a "normal" night chough can play dead sufficiently to fool 
an augur (particularly one very motivated for the animal NOT to have 
died during sacrifice), I assume he was possessed. Since black birds are 
sacred to Pas, Hierax, and Tartaros but only one of these has "died", I 
consider the death a signal that it is Pas possessing Oreb.

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