[UA] Edible clay?

[Patrick O'Duffy]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Wedig" <mrteapot at disinfo.net>

> >But come on. It's EDIBLE CLAY. Dirt sent solely for the purpose of
> >ingestion.
>
> Solely? Not intended for molding into things?

That was the impression I received from the recipient. This is lunch, not
art.

> Well, there's Adam being made from Clay, and the golem as well.  But not
really eating them (though there's that stuff witht he golem eating a paper
with mystic writing).  I recall a middle eastern myth (Babylonian?
Sumerian?  I forget) where the hero creates sheep from clay, brings them to
life by feeding them stuff, and that's where sheep came from (which they
then went on to eat).

I saw a short documentary recently upon clay-eating and ritual magic in
Africa, which is more the sort of thing I'm thinking of. Real-world cases of
eating dirt.

Somewhere in my head is ringing a vague memory of this sort of thing often
being associated with religious anthrophagy, where people eat graveyard dirt
that contains traces of human remains.

--
Patrick O'Duffy, Brisbane, Australia

My own assistants have tried to kill me, but, like Rasputin, I notice not
the poison and laugh at their icepicks. Shoot me in the lungs and I'll snarl
and spit nicotine tar at you from the bulletholes.

- Spider Jerusalem, TRANSMETROPOLITAN #39


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