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Deep in Mother Earth, an important ritual takes place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Don’t tell the wrong people that we might count it as “nature religion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deep in Mother Earth, an important ritual takes place. 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