but it's also what makes Diane Duane's Deep Wizardry work, though it's never explicitly stated.
Yes! Thank you; I knew there were other examples. I remembered after posting that it's in Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard (1974) as well: the nine weeks' death-time during which the king of the land readies himself for the sacrifice, at which he must refuse all other paths and choose the fire.
Which makes me think it must be Christian somehow or other, though I am not certain how or where.
I know there are consenting sacrifices in Greek literature—Renault didn't invent them—but I have been assuming that Goudge's precedents were Christian and that so is the general influence on the field, although I could be wrong about the latter.
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Yes! Thank you; I knew there were other examples. I remembered after posting that it's in Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard (1974) as well: the nine weeks' death-time during which the king of the land readies himself for the sacrifice, at which he must refuse all other paths and choose the fire.
Which makes me think it must be Christian somehow or other, though I am not certain how or where.
I know there are consenting sacrifices in Greek literature—Renault didn't invent them—but I have been assuming that Goudge's precedents were Christian and that so is the general influence on the field, although I could be wrong about the latter.