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CHAPTER IX
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In another passage it is said that when the moon is invisible he is hiding in plants and waters (_Cat.

Br._ i.6.3.

17; 4.

18-20).
BRAHMANIC RELIGION.
When the sacrifice is completed the priest returns, as it were, to earth, and becomes human.

He formally puts off his sacrificial vow, and rehabilitates himself with humanity, saying, "I am even he that I am."[40] As such a man, through service to the gods become a divine offering, and no longer human, was doubtless considered the creature that first served as the sacrificial animal.


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