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Sacrifice and god activity
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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.
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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-
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