Word: mukalinda
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...unrest at times approaching hysteria moves among these healthy females. But the mysterious conception of a child by one ripe and ecstatic ex-servant, followed by a teeming succession of pregnancies among the other women (of equally mysterious causation), calms all and gives rise to a salutary myth about Mukalinda, deity of fertilization, who appears as a brightly burning youth; and to a satisfying religion under a female godhead, Bona...
Twelve male Light-Bearers have been introduced as accessories to the annual ceremony of the Temple Sleep, thitherto participated in only by Mukalinda and his brides. A rebel arises in Manland, demanding shares for him and his wild fellows in the rite. The Light-Bearers themselves are infected with revolt and there is a year when the dedicated maidens have nothing to report of their sleep in the temple save pleasant dreams. The maidens smell fraud and burn the temple, whose flames signal a lusty and welcomed invasion from Manland. In the orgy of innocent rapine and surrender that follows...
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