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Although a sacred king need not necessarily rule through his religious authority; rather, the temporal position itself has a religious significance.
The notion has prehistoric roots and is found worldwide, on Java as in sub-Saharan Africa, with shaman-kings credited with rainmaking and assuring fertility and good fortune.
On the other hand, the king might also be designated to suffer and atone for his people, meaning that the sacral king could be the pre-ordained victim of a human sacrifice, either regularly killed at the end of his term in the position, or sacrificed in times of crisis.
The king is styled as a shepherd from earliest times, e.g., the term was applied to Sumerian princes such as Lugalbanda in the 3rd millennium BEC. The image of the shepherd combines the themes of leadership and the responsibility to supply food and protection as well as superiority.
As the mediator between the people and the divine, the sacral king was credited with special wisdom or vision.
How many of these ridiculous mercury threads are we gonna have this week?
I am also doing a scientific research not related to antigravity on the use of mercury to violate 2nd law of thermodynamics to extract ambient heat as energy on a large scale.
originally posted by: Wifibrains
Hi, I was not assuming it was used as a hallucinogen
originally posted by: AdmireTheDistance
originally posted by: Wifibrains
Maybe they used a breathing apparatus?
"Breathing apparatus" or no, if they were directly and intentionally inhaling mercury vapor, they damn sure weren't doing it long, given the incredibly detrimental effects it has on one's health, and the fact that it accumulates in the body.
How many thread you gonna put down this week?
That depends how many ill-informed or totally asinine threads are made this week, and that catch my eye.
Hey! why dont you just go hang around in the rant forum...
Should I feel the need to rant about something, perhaps I will. Calling out ignorance and misinformation where I see it is not ranting.
Metal mercury isn't that toxic, its when its in organic form it gets dicey.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: anonentity
Metal mercury isn't that toxic, its when its in organic form it gets dicey.
Say what?
Define organic.
So, how did that work out for the Chinese? Differently than European hatters?
If you took to much your hair and teeth fell out. But it took a long time to kill you. In China they thought it was something to do with living forever.
originally posted by: AdmireTheDistance
originally posted by: Wifibrains
Hi, I was not assuming it was used as a hallucinogen
Well then your OP certainly could have used some clarification.
This "holographic medium" presence, though, is even more silly and ludicrous than the hallucinogen idea.
I'm not even going to waste my time on it. Have fun, kiddies.
Maybe you should have stuck to the premis of the thread instead of letting your mind run wild?I never suggested once that it should be inhaled or ingested..
originally posted by: johndeere2020
I am also doing a scientific research not related to antigravity on the use of mercury to violate 2nd law of thermodynamics to extract ambient heat as energy on a large scale.
originally posted by: stumason
originally posted by: johndeere2020
I am also doing a scientific research not related to antigravity on the use of mercury to violate 2nd law of thermodynamics to extract ambient heat as energy on a large scale.
Isn't that a heat pump? No violation of anything going on there....
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Wifibrains
Maybe you should have stuck to the premis of the thread instead of letting your mind run wild?I never suggested once that it should be inhaled or ingested..
You never did provide any mechanism whereby mercury vapor could be used as a holographic medium.
Do you know, at the most basic level, what holography is? I don't really see how a vapor (of anything) could apply.
If you want to help prove how a spirit might be able to use the mercury vapour you might want to help in finding out how the vapour can be arranged in a lattice structure by the ancients.
In modern physics, many of the most challenging yet interesting phenomena are found in quantum many-body systems. When extended systems are considered, the high number of interacting degrees of freedom demonstrate strong quantum collective behaviour. This leads to a range of exotic phenomena, such as various low-temperature condensates and complex long-range entanglement structures.
originally posted by: stumason
a reply to: johndeere2020
Yeah, a heat pump. That extracts ambient heat from an environment and uses it to generate energy.
Indeed, there are many processes in nature that can never be reversed. The physical law that captures this behavior is the celebrated second law of thermodynamics, which posits that the entropy of a system – a measure for the disorder of a system – never decreases spontaneously, thus favoring disorder (high entropy) over order (low entropy).
However, when we zoom into the microscopic world of atoms and molecules, this law softens up and looses its absolute strictness. Indeed, at the nanoscale the second law can be fleetingly violated. On rare occasions, one may observe events that never happen on the macroscopic scale such as, for example heat transfer from cold to hot which is unheard of in our daily lives.