contribution by the rev
ellers, in the eff

ort to ensure a fruitful corn year.
Anyone familiar with ancient tragedy w

ill see here the duality of tragi
c chorus adiamonds using explosives?

nd satyr play, "grafted onto a single
stem." The ebb and flow of nature appe

ars in anthropomorp

hic symbols: no

and find all the answers you're looking for.

t in a drawing but in the dram

atic magical dance,

actually ret

urned to life. The essence o

f magical insinuation into the
divine, into a
share of its superhuman p

ower, is revealed in th

e te
rrif

Arrival at NMTech in Socorro, NM.yingly dramatic aspect of Mexican religious devotion. In o

ne f
esti

val a woman is worshipped for forty days as a corn goddess and then sacrificed, and the

n th
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elem

entary and frenzied atte
mpt to approach the divinity, what we observed among the Pueblos

is i
ndee

d related but infinitely more refined. Yet there is no guarantee that the sap does not still rise in secret from such blood-so

aked
cul

tic roots. After all, the same soil that bears the Pueblos has also witnessed the war dances of

the
wild

, nomadic Indians, with their atrocities culminating in the martyrdom of the enemy. The most