Category: Sacrifice
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Imagine the weight of another person’s skin against your own. Not draped loosely like cloth, but pressed intimately, wetly, the residual warmth of their final heartbeat seeping through to your flesh. Now imagine wearing it for twenty days as it rots. Eating in it. Sleeping in it. Blessing children in it whilst the tissue liquefies…
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Archaeologists found 16 attendants possibly sealed alive with Lady Fu Hao, China’s warrior queen. What made them obey? The Anguished Ordeal Begins Lady Fu Hao And Her Sixteen Slaves For weeks, the attendants had watched their mistress decline, each laboured breath a countdown they dared not acknowledge. They probably swapped pointed looks, fiddled with their…
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Volga River, A.D. 922 They asked for a volunteer, and she raised her hand, a small, petite, honourable slave girl. Ten days later, as part of ritual suicide, they would strangle and stab her on a burning ship while the whole village cheered them on. The air smelled of pine resin and blood. A longship…