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147 next New Moon of Spring.

We now approach such variations a have been found when the Fifth Festival, the [u] Ah, tah, hung, nah,__the propitiation or Amentation Feast,__has been celebrated in less ancient times. These consisted of the disposition of the altar and of the mode in which the fire was lighted, and of certain ceremonies of divination,__all of which we proceed to notice. A circle was formed upon the altar of seven different kinds of wood, curiously laid ; and seven strings of white beads, each representing one of the seven clans, and respectively placed there by one member from each clan, and pointed towards the wood, thus:

[image: outline of circle with dashed/dotted lines radiating outwards]

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