Forrest Curo's Blog – 7th mo. 2011 Archive (1)

Deals With God

Traditionally we call these 'covenants', but there's no distinction that I can see: deals, covenants, treaties, contracts-- all about "We'll do this and You'll do that."

 

There's sort of an implied deal in a sacrifice; we eat some of it, the god eats some of it, and we hope relations will stay friendly, because a god on your side can't hurt, but one who's against you is bad news...

 

But we make a 'covenant' when we'd like to negotiate and make the details…

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Added by Forrest Curo on 7th mo. 2, 2011 at 7:00pm — No Comments

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