Word: nebo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another ritual the author witnessed: garbed as half man, half woman in a ruffled shirt, cutaway coat, silk hat, and cigar stub, Papa Nebo, an hermaphrodite, wrought mysteries with corpses, pronounced the oracle of the dead. Other corpses, zombies, worked in the cane fields, strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman...
...that by you his will may be done." A Communist leader said: "If our party is not very careful this Lenin worship will get away from us. It is not for nothing that the Old Testament relates that God hid the sepulchre of Moses on Mount Nebo so that the Israelites might not make a fetish out of their leader. We face a similar situation today, and it needs but little to send ablaze Lenin fetishism throughout the length and breadth of Russia...