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--- 2013_foam_winter_solstice_ceremony [2013-12-14 18:56] – alkan
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-=== Proceedings: Solemnities. Frivolities ===
+=== The Modes of Observance of the Proceedings: Solemnities. Frivolities ===
-  - Purifying the Space
+  - Fumigation
   - Burning the Demons
-  - Consuming and Embracing the Demons. Embracing the Depths. Deliverance and Transmutation of the Bonds of the Demons
+  - Consuming and Embracing the Demons. Deliverance and Transmutation of the Bonds of the Demons. Embracing the Depths. Renunciation and Inner Purification
-  - Renewal and Metempsychosis. Sudden Transmogrification. Wild Rumpus Starts
+  - Renewal and Metempsychosis. Sudden Transmogrification. Wild Rumpus Starts((We are given to understand that the following Instructionals have been transcribed, often with several layers of inaccuracy, from obscure sources, and hence at times contain certain puzzling notions and passages. __In such cases of uncertainty, we suggest that Celebrants waste no time in futile debate, but **improvise** as best they can upon the indications present.__))
+== Fumigation ==
+Silent, ~15–20 m\\
+Chymical Indication: Tincture of Tartar
+The Space is dimly illuminated with multitudinous waxen candles, flickering in the corners and upon certain protuberances; draped white and red fairy lights swaddle the air, while a hanging garden of silvery green has been arranged.
+The Brazier of Consumption has been set in Luciferic disequilibrium, the Celebrants have assembled in the Singular Circle, from where they proceed to kindle incense of cedar and thyme from the Brazier.
+Disseminating from the Singular Circle with burning incenses, Celebrants silently fumigate the Space's multitudinous corners, in grave manner and with solemn intent. As this Observance proceeds, it may happen that certain more excitable Celebrants begin to vociferously wheeze, or yelp, or emit startling shrieks and whines. They should not be castigated, but gently brought back to the Singular Circle for the next Observance.
+== Bonfire of the Demons ==
+Pärt, ~25 m
+Celebrants reassemble at the Brazier of Consumption. A chthonic drum intones the sombre sacrifice of Demons which is at hand. Celebrants take Combustibles and sacrifice them upon the Brazier. The Elixir of Mogwana White may also be reverted to. Multicoloured fiery brocades may rise from the embers and coruscate throughout the space, but the vacuum in the human eye will draw them in and quell them.
+== Consuming and Embracing the Demons. Deliverance and Transmutation of the Bonds of the Demons. Embracing the Depths. Renunciation and Inner Purification ==
+Silent, ~10 m
+The Demons are but lost facets on the Wheel. We begin to merge and writhe with them. By merging with them, we dissolve their bonds and transmute them. The ecstasy of sundering, the agony of reuniting. We honour the infinite, let ourselves fall and fall into the infinite depths.
+== Renewal and Metempsychosis. Sudden Transmogrification. Wild Rumpus Starts ==
+The intensity of the previous Observance has conveyed Celebrants through a metempsychosis of renewal and transmogrification, and the energy released in this renewal has built up an irresistible urge to dance. Celebrants are now required to party.