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New Moon: Making rite

A woodcut of a bearded man in robes, better described by the main image caption because of Ghost's alt text character limit.
Woodcut from a 16th-century printing of Pliny the Elder's "Naturalis Historia." The ritualist occupies liminal space, straddling land and sea, fair and foul weather, day and night. All things are integrated.

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