Peaceful Cut

From: Martin Crim <mcrim_at_erols.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 17:23:00 -0400 (EDT)


I really liked Neil Smith's Peaceful Cut ceremony. Boffo. The one weakness he finds, and I tend to agree, is in the words of the ceremony: "The Covenant of Waha is that some must die so others may live. You will die and I will live!" As an alternative, I can see the butcher mourning the death of the beast and/or apologizing to it. Or, as when a Sioux kills a spider, lying to it: "Oh, no, Inktomi, the Thunder Brothers have killed you!"

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