[UA] Edible clay?

[Matthew Rowan Norwood]

> I'm working a temp job as a postal investigator at the moment. Not that
> thrilling - I sit in an office and make phone calls all day, looking for
> lost mail - but it's okay.

Postal investigators... another awesome job for UA PCs. Call the
campaign "Dead Letter Office".

> 1 - What's the real deal with this sort of thing? Religious ritual, quack
> healing, wierd fetish or not? What real-world rituals and myths are based on
> eating clay and dirt?

Hindu story about Krishna: as a child, he was fond of eating clay. One
day his mother caught him at it and scolded him. He denied eating any
clay. She told him to open his mouth so she could see, and when he did
so, she saw the entire world inside his mouth.

The meaning is something like: since Krishna, an avatara of Vishnu,
realizes his own nature as God/Brahman and also the nature of all things
in the world as manifestations of Brahman, he knows that he (Brahman)
cannot have consumed the clay (also Brahman), since he already contains
the whole world (Brahman again). Only his human mother, her mind
restricted by the subject/object duality, could think such a thing
possible.

-Matt Norwood

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