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Page 3: Opium pipes are actually designed to be used with specialized opium lamps in order to vaporize their contents properly. TYL.
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WHC Title Page: Ten Sefirot Belima. The Ten Sefriots are from Kabbalistic theology and theosophy(The Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical book/doctrine). The Sefirots are levels of creation that show themselves through God’s wisdom and have the ability to change the world or show themselves through God’s will. The ‘Sefer Yetzirah’ that is quoted here is an obscure text that focuses on the Creation, its exact meaning and mysterious instructions debated for centuries.
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Chapter 5: What Has Changed?
Cover: A Passover Seder dinner is in the background of this image, with the ceremonial hand washing in the foreground. With all of the twisted religious imagery already in FindChaos covers, we didn’t think this one would cause much of a stir. After all, that could be tomato juice on her hands.
‘What has changed?‘ is “ma nishtanah” in Hebrew, taken from the first line of a traditional Passover Seder song that asks four questions. The questions are usually asked by the youngest person or a child at the table, to provoke insightful answers from their elders and explain the rituals and customs of their traditions during this holy meal, which differs from all of their other meals so significantly. It can also be used in an ironic sense by Jewish youth to dodge their parent’s meddling. In example: “Why did you come home smelling so oddly?” Answer: “What has changed?“.
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Page 16: Main arteries were cut into for bloodletting on Mary (arteriotomy), mostly in longitudinal incisions. The jugular (throat), the radial & ulnar (wrist(s)), femoral (inner thigh) and popliteal (ankle(s)) were all let, with the wrists being first. Quite honestly, if the characters present had any hint of human biology, they would have cut into the femoral artery first and let her bleed out, probably in a matter of seconds. Unfortunately, neither of them are doctors or anywhere close to it and this incident is probably more slap-dash than it is well thought out medical knowledge. Still, even with the femoral artery slashed, it usually takes purposeful and forceful pumping of the heart (by a second party) to truly ‘drain’ someone of most of their blood.
And that’s your lesson for the day.
Also, that you shouldn’t drink before cutting yourself open (Riley). Alcohol thins the blood and makes one bleed out faster. If that’s something you want, fine. If not, think twice before getting that tattoo or piercing while drunk.
(In truth, Abby probably had to hold the artery in Mary’s wrist/other places open at one point for Riley to be able to bleed into her like that. Bodies are full of sticky that sticks to itself. But that would be less aesthetically pleasing than this scene.)
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Page 15: Blood flowing is actually a good sign that Mary isn’t actually dead yet. A hospital is perhaps in order, but apparently everyone else has something different in mind.
There’s a lot of allegory on this page, but that’s religion for you.
