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Sacred Sites and Megalithic Mysteries >> The sacrificial origins of religion and its edifices, etc.
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Elijah
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|  Posted 23-02-2013 at 12:37
Reply to Cropredy
Apologies for not replying earlier, a computer glitch just ruined my life, well almost, I did have my wife's Kindle! Anyhow, back to the very convoluted and distinctly odious subject of ancient blood sacrifice and my assertion that it was capable of inducing several modern phenomena.
Despite its fringe connotations I found your “brown gas” suggestion very interesting. First because it reminded me of a friend who demonstrated its bodily manifestation in the darkness of an army cinema many years ago, when he suddenly jumped onto his seat and held a lighter to his backside; the flame shot back three rows back and caused mayhem! Second, because it led me to the chemical compound “Oxyhydrogen”, a fusion of Hydrogen and Oxygen whose explosive combination I can personally testify to as I once worked in an ICI brine plant. Three, the Oxyhydrogen” compound in turn led me to the check for “Hydrogen Breath” in humans; I had no idea that bacteria in the human body can produce large amounts of such a reactive element in the colon and small intestine, or that it travels via the blood into the lungs where it is exhaled, and where it can be tested for as an indicator of bacterial problems in the intestinal tract!
Your observation that blood conveys large concentrations of oxygen was also significant. Of course, oxygen combines and reacts with lots of elements, but to find hydrogen in its vicinity… that should give smokers something else to worry about! Besides its potent fusion with hydrogen however, oxygen is also an crucial element, not only in the combustion triangle, but also in the “Firefly Luciferase” reaction, which produces the bioluminescent phenomenon. To find almost the whole of ancient society obsessed with the industrial liberation of blood is astonishing enough; but to find anthropology finally admitting that it may never explain the origins and spread of this mysterious rite, is rather a puzzle? More perplexing however, is the anthropological assertion that the widespread ancient testimony and allusion to sacrificial offerings suddenly bursting into flames, and the manifestation of a spiritual radiance’s in nearby tombs and temples, and the bodies of sacrificial practitioners, are merely myths? Surely these perplexing myths might afford an explanation for this puzzling ancient rite?
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