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Exactly, especially when you announce it to your subjects in large heavily incensed halls.



I can think of a few things you might be implying with your wording but none of them make much sense in context.


Anyone wanna fill me in? If it wasn’t clear, I was implying I’d like to be able to understand the implications of what I’m reading.


If I had to take a guess: the scene being depicted in the comment could apply to any powerful king/priest of the past - imagine halls full of incense and chanting creating a feeling of mass hypnosis/hysteria (possibly intensified with consumption of psychedelics) and the booming voice of the king/priest proclaims their power over celestial objects - and it comes true due to normal celestial events/eclipses!


If I’m not mistaken (and there is an old HN thread that I can’t dig up now), the Babylonians used cannabis in their incense.




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