malins
Stumbling Seeker
It's just ...Come, you have prepared for this, with fasting and meditation. You are ready. Don't be shy, put your hands down, the god will want to see exactly what he is getting. A virgin is not so easily found these days.
You are still a virgin, are you not?
this thing that has come down from the clouds and settled on the hilltop amidst the ancient leaning stones ...
... it's a lot more scary than the legends made it out to be.
Much less of the majestic, more of the grotesque.
Especially when the wind shifts for a moment and the foul stench wafts in our direction ...
All of a sudden the idea of 'surrendering myself to the sacred union with the emissary of the heavens' seems a lot less appealing.
A bit late to back out from this probably...
For choosing me as sacrifice,
perhaps the most important quality,
was not so much virginity but gullibility ...