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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
What's In the Bowl?
Let's be honest, this is almost certainly a church scene of some kind. When I first looked at it I thought the guy on the right was holding up a bible in front of the old lady. After I scanned it and blew it up, the bible appeared to be either a scroll or a wrapper. And it only looks like it could be a wrapper because there is some sort of metal bowl in front of the lady, and what could be a puff of smoke rising from the bowl. Had the man just emptied some sort of sacred powder into the bowl? What kind of ceremony is this?
The real question is what happened a few seconds later when this puff of smoke made it to the nostrils of the lady? Did she go face down into the bowl? Indeed, what IS going on?
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