Pembroke Hill High School - Raider Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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wall engravings, or graffitos, within the lavatorium referred to the land of the Sunset. They left no con- clusive evidence as to where this land may be, giving contradictory indications of East and Southwest. Some evidence suggests a primitive form of social encounter. One finds references to the dance and the prom of the mythical pastg and some other crudely scratched graffiti. The exact meaning of the latter is unclear. It appears to represent, among other things, the sign for a small fruit, known as the date. What this arrangement positively contributes to the academy, as it is also known, remains to be seen. The daisies attach magico-religious significance to certain glyphs and sacred symbols. Invariably inscribed in their leaves of scribings, these symbols must have had some broader social significance. A,B,C,D, fE?J, and F, with the appended notations '+' and '-' receive further emphasis through the daisies' propensity to as- sociate the glyphs with numerals. Their mathematics must be considered primitiveg of figures beyond 'l0O' they were ignorant, and many of them had not been allowed to progress beyond '80.While we would not want to characterize their society as magic-ridden, science and rationalism do not seem to have affected this ritual complex. The community has thoroughly acculturated the daisies into this magico-religious system at a compara- tively young age. The system has such driving force that the natives enshrine the glyph itself as a goal. Any order or ritual activity, with potential blessing of the shrine, compels compliance. Among the curious ordeals is remaining awake for up to three days, and then successfully completing hours of scribblings in books of sacred color, blue. Whether this may be related to community festivals on a gridded field cannot yet be determined. Uni- formed heroes fancestor figures?j engage in symbolic combat. They seek their own glyphs CTD, FG, PCDJ by achieving certain sacred numerals, particularly 3 and 7. Whether those who are oblivious to the mystical symbols belong within this same culture baffles my pres- ent analysis. Could there be a culturally marginal group, proclaiming the emptiness of the shrine of the glyph and the numeral fenshrined, apparently,,on some form of roll, possibly a delicacy eaten at a ritual feastj? Further study must concentrate upon how they relate to the symbolic field battles. The goal of this specialized day activity eludes precise definition. The community invests the authority of the fpa?j rents Cancestorsj people who, at least niythically, supply the place of dwelling, hence from rents,' money, suppliers of 'cash'?j in a tripartite authority figure Cknown as the Boo, V.L., and the Wuckj and in a group of profs fprols? rolesl. These trained roles fvide roll abovej possibly adjudicate the specific assignation of the glyphs to the scribings and ordeals. Their qualifications for this exalted role seem out of order with their own values. Unlike the priests of the field in striped regalia, these claim al- legiance to their own shrine, and what they refer to as the 'life of the mind'ffrom the volumes of scribblings, apparently few daisies comprehend these altemative valuesj. Some texts lead to the belief that they en- courage the marginal daisies, rejecting the glyph-numeral complex, the life of material. How a society can tolerate such alien values in its midst cannot be accounted for within our theories of society. Could these be a captured elite, expressing a dual set of community values? One might thus explain the sanctions of the tripartite authority and the daisies lack of understanding of the goals of these. Herein I may also explain the common conflict over the glyph itself. Rarely does the question of the quality ofthe scribing fan essay? in modern perceptions, then, easy?l or thetest Ctoastj another part of the ritual feast?J fall into controversy. Hence the position of the roles frolls?J expresses untenable contradictions. The forces behind their entrap- ment elude definition. Perhaps they conspire with the non-numeralists Cnihilists?j in the cultivation of the intellect and the worship of alternative shrines, the center of one believed to be in Cambridgemass. D.S. Geddes, BA, MC, MA, MD, PhD, SDS, PCDT, BS. -

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