sixth-day

Come by my sixth-day nook at Speculative Faith, where today's second parter posts interview quotes from the author of the story, Ted Chiang, before I go off into the wild forests of story analysis, trying to make my own little clearing for a literary picnic.

Archive 2006-09-01 Mirtika 2006

Come by my sixth-day nook at Speculative Faith, where today's second parter posts interview quotes from the author of the story, Ted Chiang, before I go off into the wild forests of story analysis, trying to make my own little clearing for a literary picnic.

Friday Femme at Speculative Faith: Part II of "Hell is the Absence of God" Mirtika 2006

Chathi or sixth-day ceremony of purification, are not taken to the burial-ground, but their bodies are placed in an earthen pot and interred below the doorway or in the courtyard of the house.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

The father cannot see either the child or its mother till after the Chathi or sixth-day ceremony of purification, when the mother is bathed and dressed in clean clothes, the males of the family are shaved, all their clothes are washed, and the house is whitewashed; the child is also named on this day.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

If a woman has died in child-birth, or after the birth of a child and before the performance of the sixth-day ceremony of purification, her hands are tied with a cotton thread when she is buried, in order that her spirit may be unable to rise and trouble the living.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

My spirit longed to be among friends, and to be at some meeting with them on the first day, which now drew on, this being the sixth-day night.

The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713 1885

Oh, teach me to believe in Thee as God my Creator and Sanctifier, to believe with my whole heart that the same Almighty power which gave the sixth-day blessing of creation, secures to us the seventh-day blessing of sanctification.

Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy Andrew Murray 1872

My spirit longed to be among friends, and to be at some meeting with them on the first day, which now drew on, this being the sixth-day night.

The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself Thomas Ellwood 1676

The official count for the district and each of its five school buildings will not be known until sixth-day enrollment numbers are determined.

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Since Dual-Seedline Christian Identity dogma, the ruling doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ Christian / Aryan Nations of Missouri (Missouri Secretary of State Corporation # N00773365) holds that non-whites are the sixth-day beasts of the field, without souls, and are not even to be allowed to live among White Christian Israelites of the Servant Nation of YHWH, much less rule over them, then this lawsuit against lead Defendant Barack Hussein Obama is a religious duty that we dare not shirk.

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