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The Cauldron, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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What Is Acald What Is a Cooking Pot?

In ancient china, the caldron was the alchemical recipient par excellence for the sacrifices animals and humans required in order to transmute them into immortal creatures. The idea of gods here might also well include a ancestral spirits ori. Soa blurring of the distinction there that like appeasing one's ancestors was believed to play a role in determining your fortune. In this there's no greater example than the nine cauldrons of you the great.

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