We laid the Old Man on the pallet because he could not stand always on his feet as all men have now learned to do. Once all men had been like this Old Man, getting up and lying again as the sun also rose and went down. Until they lay down forever. Or so at least the Speakers who speak for all in the ritual tell us. The Speakers who gathered now about the Old Man make the Signs preliminary to speech.
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