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/ His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god.  He preferred     \
| to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam.  He never   |
| claimed to be a god.  But then, he never claimed not to be a god.  Circum-     |
| stances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit.       |
| Silence, though, could.  It was in the days of the rains that their prayers    |
| went up, not from the fingering of knotted prayer cords or the spinning of     |
| prayer wheels, but from the great pray-machine in the monastery of Ratri,      |
| goddess of the Night.  The high-frequency prayers were directed upward through |
| the atmosphere and out beyond it, passing into that golden cloud called the    |
| Bridge of the Gods, which circles the entire world, is seen as a bronze        |
| rainbow at night and is the place where the red sun becomes orange at midday.  |
| Some of the monks doubted the orthodoxy of this prayer technique...            |
\                 -- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light"                              /
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