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"Fantasy in Wood and Flame"

Dusk's purple splendor shadows the sky over the forest glen. Dim flickers of light herald the coming stars. Mighty and ancient trees ring the glade, rising high with their great canopy. A lone man stands at the open center of the glen. By the lat light of the dying day he examines his work.

Spread out in a space cleared of all plants, down to the bare rich earth; lay various pieces of shaped wood. All are placed carefully in the form of a man. Sturdy oak for the torso, smoothed, dense and strong. The limbs are supple pine, wrapped with pliant willow. The head is of rowan and the hair made with twigs and leaves of laurel. The hands of cedar, as are the feet. Even the phallus is represented, formed correctly using sweet maple.

Casting aside his cloak, the man now wears only a loin cloth. As the last light of day fails and is no more, the man begins to circle `round the prone wooden form. His voice lifts to the growing heavens in a chant that is throbbing and deep. There are no true words, merely sub- vocalizations and booming guttural utterances. His steps take on the stamping strides of near dance. His movements respond to a beat only he hears.

The man's hands flick toward the wood and powder showers down. With that ...

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