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Vulture Deities of Ugarit

My family and friends in real life all know that I have a special love for scavenger animals. They are especially sacred to me as they fill a critical role in dealing with death – they are nature’s method of respecting the dead by handling the physical dead body in a similar way to how we humans burn or bury our dead. In America we find scavengers gross and even frightening, but when scavengers…

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