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| 32 | 609 | It was View more quotes about long">long and translucent, eighteen inches in length, of slender, bluish stone. |
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| 32 | 606 | I was then, as I wept and begged for mercy, fastened in that cruel position. |
| 32 | 607 | The ceremony began. |
| 32 | 608 | The priest, from a golden dish, lifted up a knife. |
| 32 | 609 | It was long and translucent, eighteen inches in length, of slender, bluish stone. |
| 32 | 610 | I twisted on the altar, under the torches. |
| 32 | 611 | All about me were the robes and feathers, the savage red faces; the thongs bit deeply into the flesh of my wrists and ankles; the singing, the drums, began to intensify in crescendo; they became deafening; the priest lifted the knife. |
| 32 | 612 | It was then that I saw him, sitting on an oblong pillar of stone, some eight feet in height, some forty feet from the altar. |