Spira Mirabilis
Page 48
by Aidan Harte
19 Even before the occupation, the Etruscan Mysteries cast a taint on Southern Marian practices. Readers are directed to the Mongrel Madonna: Religious Miscegenation of the Sub-Peninsula, by this author.
20 Which tradition is faithful to the original faith is a question that once animated Curial scholars – who naturally decided it was theirs. Why fidelity should matter is a mystery to the current author; surely traditions should be judged not by how static they remain but how useful they are?
21 Even today, they carry charred totems of their goddess into battle.
22 This bizarre rite, apparently, recalls a Sybarite revolt when an exasperated governor had all the men blinded.