Water Rites

In the Growing City water was held to be unapproachable, as it could not be confined by the usual utensils, being 'slippery as a snake' and having the unpleasant quality of mutability.
Lack of water casuses pain, and so water is an inimical species of element. For this reason its regular appeasement requires precisely elaboratcd invocation. Apart from such invocation, which takes the form of the piacing of a sacrificial gift upon a raft, ritual bathing may also assist in appeasing the waters. Certain researchers believe that this ritualistic bathing often disintegrated into an orgy, perhaps even culminating in human sacrifice. (It should be noted that this is the view held by the School of Barbarism.)
Other researchers consider the ceremony to be the realisation of 'ethereal symbolism' through movement. They maintain that the priestess was searching in the ripples of the water for signs originating from the god which would guide the people towards the final solution of life. However, the thus-found moment, projected to future decades, is....
........................................fogja ni.
.........................bev...........................hajl
...............................................kere...............................................kif
..................................................anit.........................org
...................sklik.............................................................................tor
.............................e.........................................eme.............o

(The above text arrived with the camp mail, addressed to Otto Ginsberger and strongly censored. The signature of the camp censor is probably that of Fanrich Bischofberger.)
Photograph from the Günsberger bequest

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