#pendell

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How far in advance do you think Alex Hirsch planned the hunt, considering its mind-boggling complexity?

The poet speaks not with intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated by nectar...For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened into nature... This is the reason why bards love wine, mead, narcotics, coffee, tea, opium, the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco, or whatever other procurers of animal exhilaration.

You love it. You want to do it again and morning comes again and ever so closer and ever and I still haven't slept.

In times of stress. In times of cultural stress. When one's country is colonised, or occupied. When up against a materially superior culture. In times of culturak collapse. When overwhelmed by cynacism and despair.

Maya sacrifice was always accompanied with shamanic blood-letting. A queen would pierce her tongue diagnolly with a stingray spine, and then pull a length of twisted string through the hole, allowing the blood to flow down the string. A king did the same with his penis. The blood was collected on paper and burned. The Visionary Serpent emerged from the smoke, and the visions that came from his mouth were recorded and interpreted. The Aztecs practiced bloodletting, generally by piercing earlobes, but they seem not to have practiced the visionary divination from burning blood. In fact, there seems to have been some fear of the Serpent.