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Death Cults Death Cults are eschatological religous groups whose belief systems stress the cyclical nature of life as exposed by astrological and natural phenomena, with an emphasis on cessaristic elements, i.e. death, solar settings, winter, amputations, bloodletting, abortionism and many more truncations of the metaphorical type.
More about... Ablation, Augury, Ritual Murder
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Groups Though Molech could be sated through the spilling of both animal and human blood, the hungry God seemed to prefer infants. Sacrifice must hurt or it has no meaning to the community; the offering of a crippled beast or vegetables could summon supernatural ire.
This metaphysical system acts in a manner familiar to many speculators in the Capitalist Stock Market -– great risk, or sacrifice, yields greater returns. But there is also the slow steady approach of the tortoise... War, for example...
More about... Molech, Other Groups
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Personage Persona Non Grata: John P. Merriweather was raised in a strict Evangelical household where he spent a good deal of his time visiting tent revivals across the Bible Belt. After studying cartography at the University of Oklahoma, he went on to work for Aliokrate. By 1941 he quit the business and moved to New York City, where he fell in with a group of business men who operated in the shadowy corners of the shipping industry. Two years later he founded The League of Gnomes.
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Quotes While their agenda is unclear, it is evident that they will stop at nothing to achieve it.-- Dubord speaking of the Anahinthan
Molech is a horrible beast, a soul-eater and a right bastard.-- Adid writing on Molech in The Oral God
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Desiderata
- Merryweather is believed to have directed the plot to destroy Wee-Wee.
- Senior Gnome Scouts are fed nothing but mushrooms for a month in preparation for their final initiation. Their young bodies are said to sprout a fungus which is then eaten by members of The League of Gnomes in their rituals.
- A man claiming to be "Mormo incarnate" once filled up William Flintrock's car with gasoline at a Tempe, Arizona service station.
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