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  1. A Poltergeist Hidden in the Flowers

    Tattoo flash, no. 51, "A poltergeist hidden in the flowers" Today is Michaelmas. Today I had hoped to describe why, according to Jackalopian customs, Saint Michael is the archangel who gets assigned all the shit jobs by his boss.1 That post has tangled itself with Jackalopian tales about the durable but doomed relationship between Michael and the Morning Star, aka Astarte, Venus, Lucifer, Chak Ek and Yotrildochet, among many other names. I could not get that post straightened out into a less snarly jumble, so that's not happening today. It will have to wait for Part Two, which can be posted anytime between now and November 8 and I will still be timely for the holiday. Meanwhile, Dear Reader, we will have to accommodate ourselves with these slightly disjointed oddments. During their centuries-long dalliance with the Roman Catholic Church, the Inultaru never surrendered their traditional practices of animism. This caused some friction with the official representation of the religion, but the Inultaru were willing to meet the challenges with imagination, as long as the Church would accept their efforts with a measure of grace. Which the Church did, for a while. […]

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