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Hybrid Satiation Cycle — Reconstructed (fragmentary)

Hybrid Satiation Cycle — Reconstructed (fragmentary) Ethnographer's reconstruction of the Cremation of Care annual ritual cycle, drawn from fragmentary BG archive sources. Provisional; not for citation. Hybrid Satiation Cycle — reconstructed from BG archive fragments — provisional; researcher's notebook page, ca. 19 — do not cite field notebook — vol. III entry: post-infiltration, summer sources: pamphlets 1899–198█, interview tape #14, photographs (?) key — attested state partly reconstructed [?] transition (witnessed) inferred / disputed annual cycle (clockwise — per informants, see file 3A) S0 Dormant year-round; "surface lives" S1 Approaching ~ T-14 days; "coordination phase" S2 Assembled Day 1; arrival at the Grove S3 Pre-Ritual sundown, Day 1; procession, robes [?] S4 Ritual-In-Progress "Cremation of Care" "the Owl" (as I recall it) S5 ★ CRITICAL Satiated "the hunger settles" — informant 7, tape 14 S6 Sustained-Access 12-day encampment; "Lakeside Talks" (?) S7 Closing Day 14; "dispersal" [fragmentary] almanac trigger "convene" sunset mark ignite [?] closure ★ encamp disperse return to surface see Strieber, p. 184 — same iconography? Pueblo informants mention similar circuit — ref. file 7B owl: cf. Athena cult; Sumerian apkallu (?). — J.M., later annotation NOTE — S5 (critical) Failure across ≥ 3 consecutive cycles → cohort decline. Subject "reverts to ordinary mortality." (their phrase, not mine) — mechanism unknown. they preserve the FORM; the function is intuited. NOTE — S4 (Owl Shrine) 40 ft. effigy — "Dull Care" — burned at the base of the shrine. Witnessed once (2000, from distance). Liturgy: [?] fragments only — see app. C sources consulted — • BG pamphlets, 1899, 1923, 1948, 197█ • interview tapes 11, 14, 19 (informants anonymized) • photographs — provenance disputed [?] • gaps: pre-1899; the actual liturgical text remains UNRECOVERED. for personal reference only — do not cite. PROVISIONAL

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