animals on the altar. This blood represented the life force of the animal, and so some scholars believe that in the context of the sacrifice it served as a symbolic substitute for the life force of the person or group making the sacrifice. Thus in offering the blood of slain animals to ...
It culminates in the celebrated House of Blue Leaves sequence, in which our sword-wielding heroine takes down a gaggle of masked antagonists and shaves off more than the hair on the head of Lucy Liu’s yakuza villainess. The second volume becomes more contemplative (ass-kicking mobile-home ...
“There hasn’t been this kind of harassment on previous New Year’s Eves or other occasions for that matter. This is a completely new phenomenon in Helsinki,” Ilkka Koskimaki, the city’s deputy police chief, told AFP. “The suspects were asylum seekers. The three were caught and taken...
As red dust is kicked up in storms from the Saharan dessert, and it reaches the wet fronts in the UK, it should hit the south east of England in the form of reddish rain. As the dust will be carried on a band of warm air, it is expected to leave red residue behind, including re...
s brother. Robin calls him out for his selfishness in the street outside in a fit of righteous anger that leaves the totally buggered Strike dazed and off-balance. Strike, recovering the next day from his drinking binge with Nick and from the partyandfrom Robin’s blistering ac...
it is difficult not to see in the body of the Irish werewolves the flesh of Irish race.[xxiv]Gerald leaves us in no doubt what this particular animal represents when he writes later in the same work that "Wolves in Ireland generally have their young in December, either because of the ex...
I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.New Living TranslationAnd I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth— blood and fire and columns of smoke.English Standard Version“And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the ...
Within the context of this3-Day Easter / Christ Resurrectionwindow it is then quite ominous that thethird Blood Moon Eclipseis falling right on the middle of thePASSAGE/TRANSITIONstage right after Death and before Resurrection. TheResurrectionin this case is the new embodiment of the Christ/Cryst...
He then asked each person how long and in what context he or she had done so. One man responded that he had fasted for two days and a night on a hilltop. Others had gone hungry during migration. Still others had experienced both types of hunger: the intentionally induced hunger of a ...
It culminates in the celebrated House of Blue Leaves sequence, in which our sword-wielding heroine takes down a gaggle of masked antagonists and shaves off more than the hair on the head of Lucy Liu’s yakuza villainess. The second volume becomes more contemplative (ass-kicking mobile-home ...