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SOURCE OR PARALLEL URANTIA PAPER 89Ideas concerning the fetish-quality ofhair and nails and their use in magic lendthem especial importance as exuvialsacrifices (S&K 1280).One of the most consistent of exuvialsacrifices is that of the blood (S&K1282).In Fiji, for example, at the death of a kingor queen, every man or a member of afamily, particularly children, cuts off afinger or toe joint, in some cases a wholefinger, fastens it in a reed stalk and hangsit up in the house of the dead (S&K IV689).Of the various exuvial sacrificeseffected by mutilation, with consequentblood-letting and identifying scars, theone performed in circumcision is perhapsthe most historic. This is a practice foundin all parts of the world and underconditions precluding originationelsewhere than in daimonism.That it comes, in later ages, to be ahygienic device disconnected with anyfaith, has led some to believe that it wasoriginally a rational procedure; theyshould realize that many unpremeditatedprimitive practices reveal the rationalityof that which has survived the automaticprocesses of selection (S&K 1285).[[Circumcision] is a common rite in initiationceremonies,being performed on both sexes ...(S&K IV 691).]In one Indian district, one hundred yearsago, every woman, “previous to piercingthe ears of her eldest daughter,preparatory to her being betrothed inmarriage, must undergo the amputation ofthe first joints of the third and fourthfingers of her right hand.” ...Hair, nails,blood,and even fingers and toes were sacrificed.The later and well-nigh universal ancientrite of circumcision was an outgrowth ofthe cult of partial sacrifice;it was purely sacrificial, no thought ofhygiene being attached thereto.Men were circumcised;women had their ears pierced.46
SOURCE OR PARALLEL URANTIA PAPER 89“Instead of the two fingers beingamputated, they are now merely boundtogether and thus rendered unfit for use”(S&K 1284).To resume with Wilken: cutting of thehair is often a religious ceremony and hasso remained; oaths are taken by the hairor beard, as seats of strength or soul(S&K 1280). [See also S&K IV 690-91.]The mutilation of the sex-organsextended even to castration, a practice ofthe priests of certain cults, preserved inclassical legend, and prolonged into theeunuch-making of relatively recent times(S&K 1287).89:8.3 Subsequently it became thecustom to bind fingers together instead ofcutting them off.Shaving the head and cutting the hairwere likewise forms of religiousdevotion.The making of eunuchs was at first amodification of the idea of humansacrifice.[?] Nose and lip piercing is still practiced inAfrica,As foregoing cases indicate, many ofthese marks, originally religious, becameornamental as well as political; and rudescarring developed into artistic tattooingwith intricate ornamental patterns (S&K1289).and tattooing is an artistic evolution ofthe earlier crude scarring of the body.§295.* Redemption and Covenant. (Sumner& Keller 1263)The establishment of what wasthought to be a successful adjustment forconciliation and propitiation leads to theconception of a covenant, that is, of acontract or alliance between the men whoowe to the god their blood and that oftheir children and the divinity that takesthe ransom (S&K 1270).89:8.4 The custom of sacrificeeventually became associated, as a resultof advancing teachings, with the idea ofthe covenant.At last, the gods were conceived of asentering into real agreements with man;and this was a major step in thestabilization of religion. Law, a covenant,takes the place of luck, fear, andsuperstition.47
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