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psychoceramics: A real Plutonium
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- Subject: psychoceramics: A real Plutonium
- From: Bruce Ediger <bediger @ csn.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:02:32 -0700 (MST)
- In-Reply-To: <199602221434.OAA--@z--.zikzak.net>
- Sender: owner-psychoceramics
A reference to a real world "Plutonium":
There's a small editorial piece on the last page of the March/April, 1996
issue of "Archeaology". Jessica E. Saraceni (how appropriate, eh?) describes
a cave in the ruins of Hierapolis, located in southwestern Turkiye.
Apparently, a castration cult honoring Kybele used this cave for unspeakable
rites into the 1st Century AD. The cave was known as The Plutonium.
There's some evidence that lethal gas collects in or is emitted by
the cave.
Another resonance with Our Archimedes' name, or mere ironical coincidence?