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^ Ghavat Al-Hakim
The Sabian's use the exudation with alcohol and dust
salt in the faces of their sacrifices, to alert and shudder
them so it spreads the blood in their bodies with moving
and clarify it
They also have what they call the Heavenly Treasury. It
is a temple that is forbidden to the public and nobody can
see that there is a well within it. When the Sun enter* the
Sign Leo they bring a boy from the cvpress region. They
get him dressed as we described earlier, he comes to the
temple and they take him into places with trees, flowers
and basil so he can feel happy. Then they make him drink
till he is drunk and they carry him to the temple at night to
the well and they soak him in sesame oil and dried red
roses that they have collected for that purpose and they
him in a bottle seven different mixtures of mustard,
lentil, chickpeas, rice, legume that looks like lentil called
Maash, lupine and wheat. On the twenty eighth day of the
crescent of the month May, they snuff and sneeze him after
he passes out. They go out at night to a deserted road and
they separate the head from the body. They bury the body
and they carry the head to Kady monastery and put it on
the back of an image of stone, according to them the head
starts to howl a harsh howL then they figure out from it if
the number of the Sabian's will grow or not and if the
country will approach them or not They say that the one
that taught them this is a wise man his name was
Bubarthtem Al-Burhomy that died in India that is why they
call the people from India Al-Barahimalt. They have so
many similar and other issues that are very hard to include
in mis book and it would be off our subject.
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