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| 2 | 213 | At the View more quotes about foot">foot of the altar beasts were sometimes sacrificed, their horns held, their heads twisted, the blood from their opened throats caught in shallow golden bowls, to be poured upon the altar; too, choice portions of their flesh would be burnt upon the altar, the smoke escaping through a small hole in the roof. |
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| 2 | 210 | The high altar, of marble, setting on a platform, also marble, of three broad steps, was surmounted by a great rounded circle of gold, which is taken often as a symbol of Priest-Kings. |
| 2 | 211 | It is without beginning or end. |
| 2 | 212 | It stands, I suppose, for eternity. |
| 2 | 213 | At the foot of the altar beasts were sometimes sacrificed, their horns held, their heads twisted, the blood from their opened throats caught in shallow golden bowls, to be poured upon the altar; too, choice portions of their flesh would be burnt upon the altar, the smoke escaping through a small hole in the roof. |
| 2 | 214 | The temple, incidentally, is oriented to the Sardar. |
| 2 | 215 | When the high initiate stands facing the altar, before the circle of gold, he faces the distant Sardar, the abode of Priest-Kings. |
| 2 | 216 | He bows and prays to the Sardar and lifts the burned meat to the remote denizens of those mysterious mountains. |