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=1.= Arose, and made an altar of the place.

Fire worship is as old as the race. Hugh is the priest, the East

Wind a religious novice who sings in the ceremonials, the night

is the temple, and in response to the worship, “Conjuries of

interwoven breath,” the fire god appears in the burning wood.

=5.= The Wind became a chanting acolyte.

Why have an East Wind?

=10.= Once more the freightage of the fennel rod

Prometheus used a fennel rod to bring fire to mortals.

=11.= Dissolved the chilling pall of Jovian scorn.

Jove despised men and refused them fire.

=13.= The face apocalyptic, and the sword

=14.= The glory of the many-symboled Lord

=17.= Voiced with the sound of many waters,

All this is from Revelations, Chapter I.

Define: acolyte, epiphanic.

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