The Red and the Blue Gods
2005-01-01 · 8 min · ★ 4.0
An ethnographic field report in which the Anthropologist describes the mythic creation of an unnamed ‘sun-scraping structure’ through the ritualized actions of the Red and the Blue Gods.
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