Blown away. I think I just had the atheistic equivalent of a burning bush. You just reminded me I used to be afraid of the troll from the billy goats gruff fairy tale. I used to get my mum to make fairy cakes for it. A sacrifice? Something that's easier for a predator to eat than I am?
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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