The Rituals of the Growing City
Posterity sadly has been provided with data with which to reconstruct the City's rituals. Only a curious row of dancers...
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'...
A significant element in the observance is the selection of the aptest root and one's approach towards it...
A placatory instrument at full moon. We discovered it in the (102) barbican of the moon in Sector C1. It was primarily placed in house windows as protection against harmful lunar influence.
Nothing more than a few fragments bear witness to the fasts of the Growing City; explanations of the voluntarily undertaken starvations are vague and contradict one another.
Take some dog's bane, take zikmuth root, take frozen mint, tear-grass and steam them with the duck. When roasting, baste with golden lard and juices. Border wit the rarer fruits of the earth...
