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Slow slicing was a form of execution used in China from roughly AD 900 until its abolition in 1905. In this form of execution, the condemned person was killed by using a knife to methodically remove portions of the body over an extended period of time. The term língchí derives from a classical description of ascending a mountain slowly. Lingchi was reserved for crimes viewed as especially severe, such as treason and killing one’s parents. The process involved tying the person to be executed to a wooden frame, usually in a public place. The flesh was then cut from the body in multiple slices in a process that was not specified in detail in Chinese law and therefore most likely varied. In later times, opium was sometimes administered either as an act of mercy or as a way of preventing fainting. The punishment worked on three levels: as a form of public humiliation, as a slow and lingering death, and as a punishment after death.

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Fôn (King) of Bandjun
Ngié Kamga Joseph

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37thstate:

Oya & Shango
Oya’s (Shango’s wife) has always had the power to guide or manipulate Sango from behind the scenes is a microcosm of the mystery in the energy of this powerful orisa.
This power enabled Sango to direct his bolts of destructive energy at their targets. In this way the two powerful orisa worked together—Oya setting the course and Sango delivering the blows.
Thousands of years after Sango and Oya walked the earth, modern science, in an attempt to understand and protect our environment, has discovered that a microsecond before lightning occurs, a minute electrical particle is emitted that descends to Earth. The lightning that strikes a nanosecond later follows the exact path of this energy particle! In its attempt to avoid the destructiveness of thunder and lightning, the energy of these two orisa, science in a way confirms confirms the existence and specific roles of these two Naturs (Energies/Gods). That minute electrical energy that precedes the lightning is Oya, once more determining the path that Sango shall follow.

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Portait of a Fulani woman from Rumsiki, Cameroon
Pere Fernandez
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